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1 Jul

Hilton case exposes chequebook journalism

Matea Gold, a Los Angeles Times staff writer, discusses how Paris Hilton’s recent jail stint and subsequent bidding war over her first post-jail interview exposed the fact that chequebook journalism […]

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1 Jul

Media standards a matter of opinion

British newspaper The Independent weighs in on the debate over media standards in response to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair lambasting the press for being “feral beasts” during his […]

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1 Jul

Web sites create global dialogue

Mark Bowden, a former staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer and current national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, discusses the process of posting portions of what would become his book […]

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30 Jun

Newspaper still the best option?

Karen Zhou, a member of the Toronto Star’s community editorial board, argues that reading the paper version of the newspaper, compared to online versions or free commuter papers, is still […]

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28 Jun

Internet celebrates “the amateur to the point of absurdity”

Steve Johnson, the Chicago Tribune’s Internet critic, reviews Andrew Keen’s new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture. While Johnson agrees with Keen that […]

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27 Jun

‘The big three’ of Canadian TV

This Poynter.org Centerpiece recaps a roundtable discussion featuring Lloyd Robertson, Kevin Newman and Peter Mansbridge that took place at the RTNDA Canada annual convention on June 23. They discussed “the future of […]

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24 Jun

Journalism is not dying

In a column for the San Francisco Chronicle, Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media, argues that current widespread concern over possible dying journalistic business models obscures the […]

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24 Jun

Footage of Diana’s last moments causes controversy

Columnist Peter Duffy of the Chronicle Herald in Halifax criticizes the recent decision of a British television station to air images of Princess Diana’s last moments.

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20 Jun

Big media vs. public airwaves

In its June 2007 newsletter, the Canadian Media Guild reviews month-by-month the changes in Canadian media ownership over the last year, and forecasts their impending (negative) impact on local news.

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20 Jun

Who should fight publication bans?

Following two recent back-to-back rulings striking down publication bans, Sun Media’s Kevin Martin poses two questions for consideration: Should the media be forced to continually bear the costs of challenging […]

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