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11 Feb

Expelled by Sudan

From a press release by Reporters Without Borders: MONTREAL, Feb. 11 /CNW Telbec/ – Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly, who worked in Khartoum for several international media from June 2008 was expelled by […]

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11 Feb

Cooke new TorStar editor

Michael Cooke will become the new editor of the Toronto Star on March 1, the paper announced. Cooke replaces editor-in-chief Fred Kuntz,  who left in December just a few months […]

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11 Feb

Jon Stewart on saving newspapers

“You know how when you read newspapers and the newsprint comes off in your hands? What if we made that highly addictive narcotic? So that if you read it, you’d […]

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11 Feb

CP style guide now online

The Canadian Press has made its Stylebook and Caps and Spelling Caps and Spelling guides available for sale online, for $6.25 per month. The advantage, it says, is a reporter […]

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11 Feb

Dramatic change in Washington corps

“The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama Administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed,” said a report by the Project […]

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10 Feb

Broadcast TV profits plunge

Profits at Canada’s biggest private television broadcasters plunged by almost 93 per cent last year, said a report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Amid comments about the Canadian […]

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10 Feb

Lost in translation: science journalists and society

<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">By</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wendy Smith and David Secko</span><br /><br />It's not easy reporting on science these days. Or so the story goes.<br /><br />Science is a complex, rapidly evolving target. This combined with cutbacks and deadlines can lead to the oversimplification of newsworthy science, shoddy science slipping into newspapers, the creation of conflicts that don’t exist or the maintenance of those long forgotten by scientists, among other issues. So the story goes.<br />

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9 Feb

Losing mass media means losing a sense of community

By Kelly Toughill It is time to stop focusing on the decline of newspapers and start worrying about the loss of mass media in general. The newspaper crisis is a […]

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9 Feb

Getting things right in real time reporting: Hoyt

Using a nasty political battle that played out in the news media as an example, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt issues a sharp reminder: “a newspaper that prides […]

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9 Feb

Readers pay, reporters dig on Spot.us

In yet another twist on user-pay, US-based Spot.us solicits reader donations to cover the cost of journalistic investigations. The problem? The reporting just isn’t very good, says James Rainey of […]

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