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27 Apr

A laid-off journalist’s lament

Chris Powell, a former staffer at Rogers Publishing, has written a guest column for Masthead Online about his new status as an unemployed journalist in Canada. Powell was one of […]

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25 Apr

Canwest series on newspaper woes

Canwest News Service has launched a series in its chain of newspapers examining the “siege mentality that is gripping the newspaper industry.” The topic is especially challenging in this series […]

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25 Apr

Journalism about goodness

In an investigative piece of journalism into human honesty, the Toronto Star dropped 20 wallets in urban and suburban locations. Most came back. Wow: journalism that affirms humanity’s capability for […]

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24 Apr

Murdoch’s WSJ, revisited

The wrecking ball has not come to the Wall Street Journal since Rupert Murdoch bought it in Dec. 2007; “sleaze has not invaded its pages; the most dire fears have […]

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24 Apr

RRJ Spring issue highlights: Hurst, Fulford and Corcoran

The 2009 issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism were launched this month at a gathering in Toronto. The Spring edition of the award-winning mag is now available on newsstands. […]

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23 Apr

Online newspaper audience up

American newspaper Web sites attracted more than 73.3 million monthly unique visitors on average (43.6 percent of all Internet users) in the first quarter of 2009, a record number that […]

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23 Apr

Covering violence in Afghanistan: a reporter’s view

By Jeffrey Dvorkin  Afghanistan might just be the most dangerous assignment going and on Tuesday, April 21, the Canadian Journalism Foundation brought together two reporters well known to Canadians for […]

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22 Apr

Barbara Moon, remembered

Before Barbara Moon stopped writing and became a legendary editor “she wrote – as all good writers do – from the edges of her nerves, under stress, weighted down with […]

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22 Apr

Canwest given more breathing room

ByDeborah Jones How long can Canwest Global Communications Corp. balance atop its tightrope? Creditors gave a company subsidiary yet more breathing room; it’s now inching along this lifeline toward a […]

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21 Apr

“Not spin doctors,” says RCMP spokesman

Former RCMP spokesman Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre told a public inquiry he did “absolutely not” intentionally give the media inaccurate information following the Oct. 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski. The Polish […]

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