Archive
4 Jul

Online ads up

A release from the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada said online ad revenues in Canada rose some 38 per cent, to more than $1.2 billion, between 2006 and 2007. A […]

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4 Jul

Cringe

I feel a little bit mean posting this, but it’s such a perfect example of why journalists have lost respect with the public (in this case anyone with basic science […]

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3 Jul

Dunces

Thought for the week: “Perhaps a nation can function without newspapers. But it would be a confederacy of dunces.”

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3 Jul

UPDATE: Blogs shut down at Toronto Life

Toronto Life magazine has pulled the plug on at least three of its blogs in the last week. On June 30, a Torontoist blog post, “Toronto Life doesn’t care about […]

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3 Jul

Cuts, cuts and more cuts

Economic hard times in the U.S. are showing in the newspaper biz. The Los Angeles Times announced today that it will slash 250 jobs from its payroll, in a story […]

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27 Jun

Journalists protest at Quebecor annual meeting

Journal du Québec employees and other union representatives protested outside Quebecor Inc.’s June 26 annual general meeting, according to a Canadian Press report.  Quebecor has been mired in battles with […]

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26 Jun

Buckler resigns

Reporters were interrupted in their sipping of wine and eating of canapés at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s s annual summer garden party June 26, by an email from Harper’s director […]

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26 Jun

News won’t wait in the Twitter age

In a recent article, New York Times reporter Noam Cohen takes a look at how news of Tim Russert’s death spread across the Internet, despite NBC’s efforts to keep the […]

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25 Jun

Fired for blogging

Chez Pazienza, a producer at CNN was fired for failing to ask permission from his bosses to write his personal blog. A story in the most recent American Journalism Review […]

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25 Jun

Copy editing outsourced to India

The idea of outsourcing work immediately brings to mind tech work such as computer programming. But copy editing? An Associated Press story run by the American journal Editor and Publisher […]

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