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18 Dec

Paper cuts

The American Society of Newspaper Editors will vote next April on cutting the word “paper” from its name and expanding its membership to include editors of online-only news Web sites […]

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17 Dec

Brunswick News Inc. vs. the Carleton Free Press

A year after it launched, the independent Carleton FreePress closed down in October. As Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Christal Gardiola discovered, that’s left a paper owned by the powerful […]

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17 Dec

Reporting on the dead

Why did neither of Canada’s two major all-news networks — CTV and CBC — for the first time fail to cover, live, the Dec. 16 repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces […]

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17 Dec

Obama and the press

Between Obama and the Press, a piece in the upcoming the New York Times Magazine, looks at how the relationship between the press and the new president might shape up […]

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17 Dec

Best of Regret the Error 2008

Craig Silverman’s Regret the Error has put together a round-up of the best media blunders in 2008. Here are a few selections: Correction of the Year: “One of the year’s […]

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17 Dec

An iconic plague

BySue Ferguson For a tribe that prides itself on being laconic, it’s ironic that the word iconic could appear so frequently with nary a hint of wit sardonic. It’s downright […]

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16 Dec

Sun Media cutting 10% work force

Quebecor Inc’s Canadian newspaper unit, Sun Media, announced 600 job cuts,  10 percent of its work force. Sun Media — which predicts the cuts will amount to $14 million in […]

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16 Dec

A disgrace to journalism: shoe-throwing

In a tone of hilarity and snickering approval the story of Iraqi “journalist” Muntadar al-Zaidi’s throwing his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush at a news conference has flooded […]

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15 Dec

Taking cover: police posing as journalists

Most journalists don’t approve of police playing the press card in the name of investigation. To date, no formal restrictions exist in most of Canada’s police departments regarding police officers […]

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14 Dec

Nolen: Out of Africa

Globe and Mail Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen is taking up a new post in New Delhi and leaving Africa. The Globe published a remarkable first-person piece in which Nolen “bids […]

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