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26 Mar

Journalism-related films at HotDocs fest

This year the organizers at Hot Docs 2009 are proud to present three amazing journalism-related documentaries: ReporterD: Eric Daniel Metzgar / 92min / USA / EnglishPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas […]

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25 Mar

Does B.C. Business Magazine have credibility?

B.C. journalist Sean Holman, who runs a blog called Public Eye Online, skewered the publisher of B.C. Business Magazine for a March cover profile of the province’s incumbent premier just […]

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25 Mar

CBC bloodbath

The CBC press release is here. Following is the CBC report, from its website, in full: The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. plans to cut up to 800 jobs to make up […]

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23 Mar

Pollan on the pact with readers

Mother Jones asked Michael Pollan about the transition to being the public face of food activism. His response: You still have to draw lines between being a journalist and an […]

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23 Mar

Rex Murphy on how we get our news

Rex Murphy’s Cross-Country Checkup took a look at how we get our news: http://www.cbc.ca/checkup/archives.html

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22 Mar

Corcoran and the CRTC

Charlie Smith of Vancouver’s Georgia Straight wondered whether libertarian columnist Terence Corcoran, for whom broadcast regulators (well, most regulators) were favourite targets, continued to excoriate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications […]

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19 Mar

The future of newspapers captured in one photo?

Well, make that three photos. But the top one gets my vote. From the Silicon Alley Insider, photos by Noah Berger of AP.

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19 Mar

B.C. publisher buys San Diego newspaper

B.C. community newspaper publisher David Black has enough faith in newspapers that he’s involved himself in bigger American leagues. A Globe and Mail business story reports on Black’s deal to […]

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19 Mar

Out of crisis, a tough, truthful spirit

Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin in fine form: “To save journalism, bring on that Jon Stewart outrage“ Excerpts: Journalism got corporate and soft … abetting easy routes to war […]

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19 Mar

The Daily Me

Nicholas Kristof quite nicely sums up the danger of our self-selection of a narrow range of news online, in a New York Times column. “When we go online, each of […]

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