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5 Apr

Corporate control and the media

Richard Silkos, media reporter for The New York Times, recounts a recent personal experience that depicts for him the continuing corporate control of the news media.

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5 Apr

Are TNR and the Sun close to extinction?

Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias, who can’t help but notice the “smell of death” emanating from all those red Toronto Sun newspaper boxes, reports on hints of the Sun’s […]

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26 Mar

Freelancers vs. editors

On his blog Canadian Magazines, magazine industry observer and consultant D.B. Scott lists comments from both freelancers and editors on how they handle working with each other.

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26 Mar

TV-hospital relationships very cozy

Trudy Lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program in the graduate school of journalism at City University of New York, and a contributing editor of Columbia Journalism Review, […]

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26 Mar

Women’s mags “hottest” in 2006

Online Media Daily’s George Simpson reports that most of Adweek’s annual Top 10 list of America’s “hottest” magazines consists of women’s titles. Simpson has two conflicting theories on this trend: […]

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26 Mar

Eichenwald’s “weird checkbook journalism”

Slate writer Jack Shafer reports on the latest developments in the Kurt Eichenwald case. In late 2005, Eichenwald wrote a piece for The New York Times about child pornography. He […]

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26 Mar

The public interest differs from what interests the public

The Times of London reporter Dan Sabbagh attempts to define the public’s interest in the wake of two British trials dealing with celebrity privacy. Sabbagh does not believe“the public interest […]

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26 Mar

Mags here to stay

Nicole Oncina, a journalism student at Columbia and writer for New York Review of Magazines, lists “the five reasons why magazines are here to stay.”

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25 Mar

Why should audiences buy the cow if they get the milk for free?

Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias reacts to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media 2007 report, which details the dwindling circulation and viewership numbers of news […]

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25 Mar

Dan Rather says journalism has “lost its guts”

Former CBS broadcaster Dan Rather proclaimed that journalism “in some ways lost its guts” at a recent keynote speech, reports Daniel Terdiman of CNET News.com. Rather, who stepped down from […]

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