Archive
7 Jul

Acronyms send journalist OTE (over the edge)

A recent Mediacheck column from The Tyee reminds us that General Grammatical Standards (GGS) require that writers spell out full meaning of acronyms Upon First Usage (UFU) for Non-Clique Readers […]

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7 Jul

Live Global Forum – The Future of Media (webinar)

Journalism, New Technologies and Media Development: The Transformation of News in the Digital Age An interactive, live conversation between scholars and practitioners Join us, Tuesday July 14 (at 4 pm […]

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6 Jul

Reporting on a kidnapping: do journalists get special treatment?

When New York Times reporter David Rohde, Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin and their driver Asadullah Mangal were taken hostage last November, the Times went to great lengths to make sure […]

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6 Jul

How the media works, and for whom, isnt always reassuring

The Calgary Stampede-Vancouver Humane Society story (June 29-30) is a vivid demonstration of how, and for whom, the Canadian news media works in many cases. What began as a sad […]

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2 Jul

Eastern Europe media development – no longer the flavour of the week

Sándor Orbán remembers when the biggest problem faced by Eastern Europe’s media organizations was not being able to burn through dollars fast enough to please donors. Now, twenty years after […]

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30 Jun

Freedom of the press annual rankings: are they worth reporting on?

We’re all familiar with press freedom rankings, like Freedom House’s annual Freedom of the Press Index. But are they valid? This was the question of the day at the Central […]

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29 Jun

I studied print journalism: Now what?

In a recent “Since you asked” column by Salon.com’s Cary Tennis, Scared journalist asks: “Is it healthier to stick it out working at an ice cream store and desperately try […]

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26 Jun

Fired for factual errors: when the punishment doesn’t fit the crime

In a column for the Columbia Journalism Review, Craig Silverman, the self-described “errors guy” of Regret the Error fame, sticks up for fired Telegraph-Journal intern Matt McCann. McCann, a journalism […]

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25 Jun

New project tracks reports released by government

An online project for journalists that tracks and links to government and NGO reports in Canada, which launched in April, now has more than 170 entries. Reports Canada, a blog […]

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24 Jun

CBC radio doc explores news in age of social media

Documentary producer Ira Basen created a two-part series called News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media on “where the news business is going, now that […]

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