Archive
29 Jul

New media and the CRTC

Kelly Toughill, a journalism professor at King’s College, questions whether two upcoming reports commissioned by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on their policies and a series of hearings on […]

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29 Jul

Stop being a stenographer

John Kampfner, an editor at the New Statesman, calls on reporters to stop being “stenographers” for powerful politicians and to start doing more “intrepid reporting or digging,” in a recent […]

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26 Jul

Reader’s Digest increasingly ambitious

Peter Stockland, editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest Canada, is out to rock the boat. A story by Dana Lacey in the latest Ryerson Review of Journalism says the magazine is starting […]

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26 Jul

Warren Buffet’s cure for online journalism

In a piece that’s essential reading for anyone interested in the business of journalism, CNNMoney.com has a story on the challenges facing the Washington Post It includes this nugget from […]

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26 Jul

Search on for CBC president

The federal government has started looking for a new president for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to replace Robert Rabinovitch, whose second term ends in November, reported Canadian Press.

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26 Jul

Quebec journalists protest hospital expulsion

Quebec’s federation of journalists protests the expulsion of a journalist from a Laval hospital:         QUEBEC, le 26 juillet /CNW Telbec/ – La Fédération professionnelle desjournalistes du Québec (FPJQ) […]

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18 Jul

Journalism at sea on a “ship of fools”

This piece is worth reading, partly for a summer laugh and partly because it’s one British writer’s wry take on a large and influential chunk of the American media audience. […]

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18 Jul

CanWest executive retires

A senior CanWest executive is retiring. The Asper family will consolidate more of its control over the media monolith as Leonard Asper takes over the responsibilities of outgoing Peter Viner. […]

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17 Jul

What Hilton coverage says about journalism today

The Huffington Post, The Independent, and the Houston Chronicle comment on what all the recent Paris Hilton coverage in mainstream media says about the state of journalism today.http://www.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2723200.ecehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-kitman/parisite-journalism_b_54415.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-horowitz/journalism-my-ass-2_b_54191.html http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4919586.html

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17 Jul

Wikipedia’s influence

Johnathan Dee, a novelist and contributing writer for The New York Times magazine, looks at the influence and future of Wikipedia, the hugely popular online encyclopedia that can be added […]

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