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14 Aug

Why youth are tuning CBC out

In a recent edition of The Tyee Elaine Corden, a freelance writer, comments on the success (or failure) of CBC’s latest ventures aimed at attracting a new fresh-faced audience to […]

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14 Aug

Paper redesigns fit for the blue bin

Bill Reynolds, a Ryerson University journalism professor and editor of the Ideas section of J-Source, rails against the latest redesigns of The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star in […]

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14 Aug

Criminal charges in India for writer

Author Taslima Nasreen, whose writing about women’s lives so offends conservative Muslims there’s a bounty (fatwa) on her head and she’s banished in her native Bangladesh, is reportedly charged in […]

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14 Aug

“Savviness” is the religion of journalism, says Jay Rosen

“The real—and undeclared—ideology of American journalism is savviness, and this is what made the press so vulnerable to the likes of Karl Rove,” argues Jay Rosen in Press Think. My […]

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14 Aug

Not all there in Black and Whyte case?

Frank Moher at backofthebook.ca looks at the claim made by a NY Times article that a conflict of interests has tainted Maclean’s coverage of the Conrad Black trial. He notes […]

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13 Aug

TorStar for sale?

Will the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest newspaper, be in play on the stock market? The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson and Gordon Pitts examine that question in a piece about […]

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13 Aug

Media have tribes?

The latest Pew Research Center study on how Americans regard their news media will be a downer for many professional journalism: distrust, division and the emergence of media tribes. I […]

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11 Aug

Canadian-Somalian journalists killed

A report by the CBC  says two journalists killed in Somalia today had lived in Ottawa before returning to Somalia in 1999 to help build an independent press. There are […]

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10 Aug

Reuters’ “sinking feeling”

Busted by a 13-year old. Ouch. After a boy in Finland noticed pictures carried by Reuters looked like subs in the movie Titanic, the news agency was forced to admit […]

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9 Aug

Na, na, na: My way is BETTER!

A website is a website is a website, argues Steve Safran in this column: The more tools we keep giving journalism, the more journalists keep arguing over the tools. What […]

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