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14 Sep

Tangled up in dotted lines

Buyouts and layoffs are a troubling newsroom trend, no doubt. But in an LAObserved.com blog entry from August 13, TJ Sullivan cites SPJ’s position (or lack thereof) in a recent copyright […]

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10 Sep

What Blatchford won’t miss about Afghanistan

In her September 10 column for the Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford describes what it was like living in Afghanistan as an embedded journalist days before returning home.

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5 Sep

Media responsibility for 2000 U.S. presidential results

“Al Gore couldn’t believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes […]

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5 Sep

Globe’s F&A source of internet hoax?

In the Globe & Mail‘s September 4 Facts & Arguments piece, Winnipeg English teacher Sharon Melnicer describes an assignment she gave her Grade 12 students in the late 1990s. The assignment was a “tandem […]

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4 Sep

From managing editor to madame

In 2004, Jody Paterson left her staff position at the Victoria Times Colonist to become executive director of PEERS, the Prostitutes Empowerment Education Resource Society. Her big goal for 2008 is to launch a […]

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30 Aug

Editor’s firing not a result of complaint

Black Press Ltd British Columbia chief operating officer Rick O’Connor circulated an internal e-mail to staff yesterday that assured them the firing of Victoria News editor Keith Norbury wasn’t linked […]

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27 Aug

Making the best of a photo-op

In his August 25 column for the London Free Press, Paul Berton gives politicians advice on how to get that coveted front page photo.

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26 Aug

Our new look

A note to those who have been following the blog at CanadianJournalist.ca: You’ve probably noticed recent changes in the look and feel of the blog. We have now fully integrated […]

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24 Aug

ABC Gum

“On many days the newsprint front page tastes of already chewed gum,” says Jack Shafer, in a Slate column reflecting on how his news consumption has shifted to the Internet. […]

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24 Aug

The Daily Mail Diet

In this seven-minute documentary commissioned by CurrentTV, we follow Nick Angel on his journey of discovery as he reads nothing but UK tabloid Daily Mail for a month. After about […]

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