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20 Jun

CBC.ca redesign

CBC.ca has been redesigned — what do you think? Go have a look and then share your comments here.

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14 Jun

Angie an FOP hypocrite?

In the new movie “A Mighty Heart,” Angelina Jolie plays the widow of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl, killed while researching a story in Afghanistan. However, in a move that […]

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11 Jun

Takeover zeal in the news industry short-lived

Struggling with shrinking margins and uncertain prospects, newspaper companies have endured slumps in their stock prices in the past four years, making them ripe takeover targets. But bankers and analysts […]

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11 Jun

Blogging the block

Neighborhood blogs — an ever-evolving mix of journaling and journalism — are an increasingly popular forum for helpful, often constructive discussions of the uber-local sort. This Washington Post piece asks […]

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9 Jun

Dion a flip-flopper?

The Tyee’s media critic Donald Gutstein comments on why the Conservatives and some Canadian media outlets label Liberal leader Stéphane Dion a flip-flopper. Gutstein says Harper government spin doctors having […]

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9 Jun

Mark Steyn’s controversial track record

In The Tyee, freelance writer and broadcaster Steve Burgess comments on the recent assertion by popular right-wing columnist Mark Steyn that “the dead of Virginia Tech were wimps.” Burgess then […]

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7 Jun

“Creative destruction” and the WSJ

“Suck it up,”an editorial in the Wall Street Journal seems to tell WSJ staffers: “Those of us who extol the virtues of Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” for others can’t complain […]

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5 Jun

CRTC new focus of “media democracy” movement

The CRTC has become the target of a new media democracy movement, and TorStar media columnist Antonia Zerbisias has a column about it — and the grassroots media activists, lawyers, […]

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5 Jun

“A hoot”

The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten outsources himself. Using web resources only, he reports on some sort of Indian political meeting with some sort of people in some sort of strange […]

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31 May

Shrinking space for journalism in Russia

The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times report on the shrinking space for journalism in Russia today. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0524/p12s01-woeu.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/world/europe/19press.html?n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fM%2fMedia

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