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23 Jul

Twitter isn’t killing journalism

John Dickerson, chief political correspondent at Slate, says the popularity of microblogging site Twitter among journalists is nothing to be scared of. In a recent column in Nieman Reports, Dickerson […]

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22 Jul

Is starting small the best route to a national paper?

A U.K.-based blogger was shocked to hear an editor say that his national newspaper no longer considers regional papers a ripe training ground for up-and-coming journalists.  She recounts a meeting […]

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21 Jul

Electronic magazine cover to hit newsstands

The cover of the September issue of Esquire magazine will feature an electronic cover that flashes. In a New York Times article, the magazine’s editor-in-chief David Granger said he hopes […]

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21 Jul

Shrinking newspapers, shrinking world

Reports the New York Times: ”Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite […]

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18 Jul

Montreal journalist remembered

The Gazette‘s Josee Legault remembers former Gazette political columnist Ed Bantey today, on the ten year anniversary of his death. Bantey was known by many as the paper’s “separatist columnist,” […]

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14 Jul

New Yorker cover prompts media storm

The cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine has spurred controversy as some say it is offensive, while others see it as pure satire aimed at highlighting the absurd. The […]

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12 Jul

Bush spokesman Tony Snow dead

Tony Snow, best-known as a one-time White House spokesman for U.S. President George W. Bush and also a conservative editorialist, commentator and a host on a Fox cable show in […]

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11 Jul

Focus on journalism, leave the rest to Google?

Buzzmachine blogger and What Would Google do? author, Jeff Jarvis, initiated a discussion recently about newspapers handing over non-journalism work to an outside source. Focus on what your good at, […]

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10 Jul

Chicago newspaper lists 50 fav mags

The staff at the Chicago Tribune has put together its (randomly selected) annual list of 50 favourite magazines. The mags chosen (sorry, no Canadian pubs) range from old standards like […]

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9 Jul

Murdoch-Fox/NY Times

A Globe and Mail piece by Sinclair Stewart summarizes the kerfuffle involving Fox News vs the New York Times, which has been making American media news lately. The focus is […]

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