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7 May

The history of the web in under five minutes

This video titled “The Maching is Us/Using Us,” created and uploaded to YouTubeby Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, summarizes the development of the web […]

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3 May

Media lessons from VA Tech

Editor & Publisher’s Steve Outing reviews coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre and makes the following claims: “Traditional media have a hard time reporting outside of their own boxes, and […]

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2 May

G&M exposes government’s heavy-handed editing

After complaints to the Access to Information Commissioner, the government released a heavily-edited version of a Foreign Affairs report entitled “Afghanistan-2006; Good Governance, Democratic Development and Human Rights.” Paul Koring […]

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26 Apr

News, blog-style

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, Poynter looks at how many news organizations favoured a blog-like reporting style over the traditional article format. A companion piece blog entry […]

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26 Apr

OJR comments on VA Tech coverage

Two discussion threads about the VA Tech shootings have emerged at USC’s Online Journalism Review, one attached to an entry entitled “Dangers of Citizen Journalism” and another to “VA Tech […]

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26 Apr

Typophiles weigh in

Typophile.com has a lively discussion going on about the new Globe and Mail. Join the discussion here.

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26 Apr

Death of newspapers a myth

Toronto Star business columnist David Olive says the imminent death of the newspaper is a myth, but that everybody in the newsroom should continue to stay on their toes and […]

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26 Apr

J-schools need to move into the future

Mark Glaser, host of PBS’s MediaShift, thinks journalism schools need to step out of the past by “continuing to teach the basics of good reporting while also considering future directions […]

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26 Apr

Congdon under fire

Author, fetish model and video blogger Violet Blue say controversial reporter Amanda Congdon “isn’t a journalist” at all, but simply “portrays one on ABC’s vlog,” in a column for the […]

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26 Apr

Anna Nicole Smith case a media feeding frenzy

Associated Press writer Matt Sedensky reports on the results of a study by The Project for Excellence in Journalism, which revealed “network morning shows and cable news fueled the frenzied […]

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