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16 Jun

Getting Romeneskod

In his media blog for Conde Nast’s business mag, Portfolio, former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines remembers being “Romanesko’d” out of his job in the post Jayson Blair […]

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16 Jun

Elegy for Copy Editors

“Copy editors are more powerful than proofreaders. They untangle twisted prose. They are surgeons, removing growths of error and irrelevance.” Nice. Most copy editors never see elegant sentences like this […]

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16 Jun

AP drafting guidelines for bloggers

The Associated Press is trying “to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright,” […]

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16 Jun

News boycott

Journalists in Gaza staged a boycott of news about Israelis in Gaza on June 16. The reason was sound: journalists want to hold Israel to account for its apparent slaughter […]

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13 Jun

News axed at Montreal radio station

Montreal radio station 940 AM will lay off 18 employees and switch to an oldies/greatest hits format from an news-talk format, reports CBC, because “owner Corus Entertainment announced the station’s […]

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13 Jun

Tim Russert dead at 58

American journalist Tim Russert has died at age 58. The Washington anchor of the U.S. NBC network and host of “Meet the Press” was “a towering figure in American journalism,” […]

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13 Jun

Sexist or fair coverage?

Coverage of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid has renewed debate in the U.S. about how journalists deal with women. A piece in the New York Times looks at the issue, and […]

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13 Jun

Maclean’s case hits NY Times

New York Times national legal correspondent Adam Liptak leads with the Maclean’s/Mark Steyn human rights case in the most recent installment in American Exception, his series of articles looking at […]

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11 Jun

No word yet on Alexander replacement

After word hit the streets yesterday that Walrus editor Ken Alexander had quit, the industry was whirling about who might take over the top job at the mag. In a […]

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9 Jun

Reporter “bullied” by Tories, says columnist

Globe and Mail columnist Gary Mason has some strong words for the Conservatives who claim reporter Tom Zytaruk “doctored” a tape to make prime minister Stephen Harper look bad, in […]

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