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31 May

Recently posted at Canadian Journalist

AP is teaming up with a tech firm in an effort to gain more rights control over its digital content. Will the new technology be affordable for small media? ALSO B.C. newspaper files […]

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30 May

Google needs to take journalistic responsibility

Neil Henry, a former journalist turned professor and author, argues that Google and its ilk must take on responsibility for the future of journalism, because by sticking to its insistence […]

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27 May

Spike Lee laments shortage of black sports writers

The Associated Press reports on filmaker Spike Lee lamenting the shortage of black sports writers in America.

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25 May

Where the cameras have no business

After hearing of her son’s death, Jordan Manners’s mother collapsed to the ground outside a Toronto hospital, wailing in agony — and the TV news cameras showed no mercy. In […]

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24 May

Secrecy at the White House

David Sirota, a Huffington Post blogger, comments on the secrecy of  the Bush administration and the uncritical stance taken by the Washington press corps to the government’s version of what’s […]

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15 May

Some still optimistic about news industry

A voiceofsandiego.org editorial uncovers reasons to feel good about the future of journalism, despite constant chatter forecasting the death of the news industry in America.

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15 May

Media merger madness

This CNNMoney.com story provides an overview of the recent wheeling and dealing between News Corp./Dow Jones and Thomson/Reuters and suggests why there may be more mergers on the horizon.

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14 May

Why the outrage over Murdoch’s WSJ bid?

The Toronto Star‘s David Olive claims that The Wall Street Journal would do better in the hands of business-savvy News Corp. than the stagnant Dow Jones.

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14 May

Newsosaur denounces online news

Alan Mutter, on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, denounces the 24-hour online news desk as “the worst idea for newspapers” in the last decade. Mutter argues that having reporters […]

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7 May

CBC host discusses accountability

The host of CBC Radio’s “The Current,” Anna Maria Tremonti, reflects on the state of accountability in journalism, both overseas and in Canada. The Embassy piece ran shortly after Tremonti […]

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