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9 Mar

The Globe’s Ingram on social media and changes in the newsroom

What exactly does The Globe and Mail‘s Mathew Ingram do in his new role as communities editor? University of British Columbia journalism professor Alfred Hermida recently spoke with Ingram about […]

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9 Mar

Don’t wanna pay reporters? Don’t pay professors instead

New York University professor Jonathan Zimmerman proposes an interesting solution for resource-challenged newspapers: get university professors to write for free. Zimmerman points out that a century ago, members of the […]

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8 Mar

Farewell to the tyranny of reporters

ByStephen Strauss When I give lectures about the future of journalism, recently I have been making reference to the weakening, if not the entire overthrow, of what I term The […]

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7 Mar

Media “necessity” and fair, says Tory

John Tory thanked the media for being fair in his speech announcing his resignation as leader of the Ontario Conservative party. Oddly, Tory’s full comments on media were not in […]

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7 Mar

Regina journalism school founder dies

Ron Robbins, a long-time Canadian Press and innovative CBC journalist before he founded the University of Regina’s school of journalism, is dead at the age of 92, reported the Regina […]

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7 Mar

Is Mother Jones the answer for independent journalism?

Mother Jones has become “a real-life laboratory for whether nonprofit journalism — a topic of the moment in mainstream news media circles — can withstand a deep recession,” reports the […]

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6 Mar

Will CanWest sell New Republic?

Folio: is reporting that Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief and former longtime part owner of The New Republic, is in negotiations to buy back the assets of the magazine from CanWest Global […]

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6 Mar

Ethnic media thriving

“As the economic downturn triggers layoffs for many traditional media outlets across the country, several ethnic media groups in the Greater Toronto Area appear to be thriving, according to industry […]

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6 Mar

Help: we’re a nonprofit

“Read 40 Papers for as little as $10 a month—become a friend of Sightline today!” says a solicitation for money from an environmental organization in the Pacific NorthWest. The email […]

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6 Mar

A love letter to journalism

The Walrus announced the winners of its Love Letters contest recently and runner-up Jina Moore penned a letter to journalism. Moore’s letter is from a journalist who’s decided to jump […]

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