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21 Apr

rabble.ca on newspaper woes

Asked a forum organized by rabble.ca, “What’s wrong with our newspapers?” Answers from Peter C. Newman, Linda McQuaig and Wayne MacPhail included, respectively, “boring,” “corporate ownership,” and “anti-union intentions.” “The […]

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21 Apr

More bloggers than bartenders

In the United States, reports the Wall Street Journal, more people now blog for a living than program computers, fight fires or tend bar; there are now nearly as many […]

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21 Apr

NYT massive loss

The New York Times Company reported a first-quarter loss of $74.5 million on Tuesday, compared with a loss of $335,000 in the period a year ago, as it joined the […]

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20 Apr

Harper’s mysterious Jamaican news conference

“Why is PM Harper letting a pro-Israel think tank organize a press conference for him?” Twitters Canadianmags. The tweet links to David Akin’s blog post about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s […]

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20 Apr

Pulitzer peacockery

Slate‘s Jack Shafer thinks America’s Pulitzer Prizes — announced today — are mere “industry peacockery.” Shafer says Joseph Pulitzer was “one of the inventors of yellow journalism,” and today’s prizes […]

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20 Apr

J-profs and j-students rate each other

A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with […]

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20 Apr

“Today the goals are different”: the media’s lost generation?

“The media business has always been a deeply competitive bastion of ambition; yet today’s journalists—including both those sidelined by layoffs and those still clinging desperately their workplace desks—have been left […]

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18 Apr

Iran sentences US-born journalist to 8 years

A court in Iran sentenced Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years in prison for spying, her lawyer said Saturday. The 31-year-old freelance reporter, who was born in the U.S. […]

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17 Apr

It’s good to see they’re still making newspaper movies

The release of State of Play, a new Hollywood film starring Russell Crowe as a newspaper journalist, has prompted comparison between newsrooms portrayed on film and the troubled newsrooms in […]

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16 Apr

Newsprint producer files for bankruptcy

AbitibiBowater, the world’s biggest newsprint producer, has filed for bankruptcy protection. It was only a matter of time ….  Reports by the Globe and Mail here, Bloomberg, Financial Post…

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