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4 Oct

Global axes 200 jobs

Global television, part of the CanWest conglomerate, is laying off a total of 200 people, the company said Thursday. It’s part of the broadcaster’s plan to update the technology in […]

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3 Oct

PM meets journalists!!!!!

“Stop the presses!” leads a Canadian Press story, uncharacteristically. An excerpt:Stephen Harper sat down for a news conference with the national media on Wednesday. The prime minister temporarily put aside […]

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3 Oct

Mainstream journalist jumps to “blog”

Some time soon, I think, we’re all going to have to scrap the term “online” and agree on a new way to describe news presented on the Internet instead of […]

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3 Oct

Suicide coverage: the British way

I’ve encountered no more brutal assignments than those about suicide. Nobody seems to have found a way to entirely reconcile the gap between private grief and public information, and it’s […]

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3 Oct

Journalists on postage stamps

This week the U.S. will preview five stamps featuring 20th Century journalists. A press notice of an Oct. 5 press conference names them:  war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998); John Hersey […]

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30 Sep

You say Myanmar, I say Burma

The official name is ‘Union of Myanmar’, but media outlets appear split on what to call the Southeast Asian nation once known as Burma. The BBC and the Bangkok Post […]

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27 Sep

Journalism’s elusive truth

“Journalism is about publishing what you believe in your heart to be true — at deadline,” writes Kirk LaPointe in his September 21 Womens Post column, and that news organizations should be […]

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26 Sep

Is this the end of news?

In the October 2007 issue of Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff writes about his experiences developing Newser.com, a site that claims to deliver “faster, smarter news.” Obvious plug for the site notwithstanding, […]

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25 Sep

Journalism’s other road

Buried in the despair of a U.S. media-industry roundup — to which it devotes an extraordinarily long and justifiably depressing introduction — the Columbia Journalism Review presents some interesting ideas […]

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24 Sep

Online, all the time

American journalist Seymour Hersh has much to say In a Q&A interview about the Internet’s impact on journalism: “There is an enormous change taking place in this country in journalism. […]

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