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7 Jan

Year of the Muslim media

Charlie Beckett, on his Guardian blog Comment is Free . . . , discusses British media coverage of Muslims in 2006. Beckett writes the “year of the Muslim media began […]

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7 Jan

Media Mensch 2006

The New York Observer names former Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet its Media Mensch 2006 “for [r]efusing to [g]ut [n]ewsroom [p]roduct.” NYO says Baquet “spit into the eye of […]

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7 Jan

Wall Street Journal launches blogs, online commmunity

Editorial executives at the Wall Street Journal are now comfortable launching blogs on the paper’s website, reports journalist Mark Glaser on his PBS blog, MediaShift. Glaser interviews WSJ.com managing editor […]

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5 Jan

Gladwell lauds WSJ in Enron case

In his blog, The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell offers kudos to the Wall Street Journal for breaking the Enron story (vs. other interested parties who stood much more to […]

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19 Dec

Mixing PR with journalism

In recent years, German dailies have come under fire for increasingly blurring the line between advertising and editorial content as they try to stay afloat in an increasingly competitive market. […]

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19 Dec

Columbia j-school cheating scandal

Columbia University graduate journalism students allegedly cheated “on an open-book, take-home exam in a pass-fail course– about ethics,” according to the New York Times. The news led News Busters blogger […]

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19 Dec

Covering Darfur

Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Meena Nallainathan investigates the media’s role in the lack of continued coverage of the crisis in Darfur. Nallainathan uncovers numerous reasons why Darfur falls off […]

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19 Dec

American media pulling out of Canada

The number of foreign correspondents based in Canada has dwindled since the 1990s, and Maclean’s magazine’s Chris Selley discusses the trend of American news outlets pulling reporters out. Time Canada, […]

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19 Dec

Al-Jazeera “worth every penny”

In Common Ground magazine, media researcher Hsing Lee calls the new English language Al-Jazeera service a “breath of fresh air and a return to true investigative journalism on TV.” Al-Jazeera […]

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19 Dec

Non-fiction writer’s manifesto

In a recent entry on the Dooney’s Cafe site (www.dooneyscafe.com), writer Myrna Kostash claims non-fiction writers still “don’t count” in the Canadian literary landscape. Kotash, who joined the Writers Union […]

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