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19 Mar

Time Inc. experimenting: paid online content, made-to-order mags

Time Inc. is trying out a new customized magazine that allows readers to choose from various publications and has also announced plans to start charging for some content online. The […]

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18 Mar

Replacing science journalism

<p>"Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing fast. But can the one replace the other?" asks Geoff Brumfiel <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090318/full/458274a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the science journal <span style="font-style: italic;">Nature</span></a>. It's a long, informative and thoughtful look at the impact on science of declining traditional journalism. The piece includes interviews with top science journalists, and presents research on the degree to which full-time science journalism jobs have been lost.<br />

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18 Mar

Make CBC egghead Can-Con, says columnist

I rarely agree with the opinions that pervade the National Post, but I found myself cheering at parts of comment editor Jonathan Kay’s column praising the CBC for “intellectual elitism” […]

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18 Mar

Globe online chat: future of newspapers

Globe and Mail deputy editor Sylvia Stead and Report on Business media reporter Grant Robertson took reader questions in an Globe online forum on March 17. Robertson, with Sinclair Stewart, […]

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18 Mar

Intelligence axed in Seattle

It’s noteworthy and quite right that Hearst’s revised media product in Seattle is called seattlepi.com, with no attempt to retain the word “intelligence” in the name. Hearst sacked dozens of […]

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18 Mar

Manitoba considers cameras in courts

Manitoba is mulling over whether to give the public a front-row seat in the province’s courtrooms,” reports the Canadian Press. A committee appointed by the province’s chief judges is expected […]

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18 Mar

Transcontinental in San Francisco brawl

Canada’s TransContintental Printing — and its plans to use non-union pressmen — have placed it in the middle of “a game of chicken between the Teamsters and the Hearsts” involving […]

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18 Mar

Rogers blocks island radio application

“A non-profit society that wants to set up a low-wattage, community radio station on Gabriola Island is worried opposition from Rogers Communications will stop their application for a broadcast licence,” […]

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16 Mar

“Rocky” reporters start own online journalism

“Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News’ 100th anniversary,” reported […]

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16 Mar

CBC’s Maddren jumps to business world

Judy Maddren, best known as the host of World Report on CBC Radio, is leaving the public broadcaster after more than three decades at the microphone. A CBC report said […]

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