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5 Feb

No, newspapers are not dead: Yelvington

Steve Yelvington, the former newspaper exec now consulting on the online end of the business, writes a solid, emotional post on how print isn’t dead. It’s time to stop the […]

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5 Feb

Layoffs are good for newspapers: Globe and Mail communities ed

Mathew Ingram of The Globe and Mail has put himself out there — way out there — with a post for the Nieman Journalism Lab saying that newspaper layoffs are […]

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5 Feb

Hey, I didn’t write that

A New York Times profile of Michael Ignatieff at the end of January claims “Maclean’s magazine once named him ‘Canada’s Sexiest Cerebral Man.'” But Maclean’s writer John Geddes says the […]

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5 Feb

Shooting British messengers

What on earth are the British thinking these days, aiming their guns at their messengers? The Brits harassed five top financial journalists who appeared at a government hearing in London […]

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5 Feb

Sudan expells Canadian-Egyptian journalist

Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly was expelled by Sudan, where she had been reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg and Irin, reported AFP. A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman spoke out […]

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5 Feb

Why foundation ownership is a bad idea

Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce […]

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5 Feb

Online video stats: Is anyone actually working?

We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos […]

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5 Feb

NY Times: Pay wall under (re)consideration?

Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a […]

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4 Feb

Journalist death toll down in 2008, rises again in early ’09

The 2008 death toll in journalism, reported the International Federation of Journalists, was 109 reporters and other news media workers killed on assignment. That figure looks better than 175 deaths […]

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4 Feb

“Mr. Dying” tracks media

Utne has the goods on the guy tracking the death of North American media on Twitter. “The media is dying” is a virtual death knell of journalism, so relentless in […]

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