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27 Jun

Content-farming, and what it means for journalism.

“The content farms have taken journalism hackwork to a whole new level.” A highly critical look at factory journalism: online companies like Associated Media and Demand Media that generate enormous […]

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27 Jun

When it comes to a journalist’s Twitter, who owns the account?

University of British Columbia journalism professor Alfred Hermida leads an interesting discussion on his blog, Reportr.net about journalists, Twitter, and ownership. He asks: When it comes to media branded accounts, […]

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27 Jun

Sun columnists discuss: is the media in Canada conservative?

Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski has written a response to an earlier column by his Sun colleague, Warren Kinsella. In his column, Bonokoski takes issue with a statement Kinsella made in […]

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27 Jun

Fired Sportsnet host Damian Goddard files human rights complaint; tweets about it

After more than a month, less than a handful of tweets and not much else, fired Rogers Sportsnet on-air host Damian Goddard broke his silence — first on Twitter, and […]

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24 Jun

One journalist scorns the advice that j-students should “brand” themselves

<p>A journalism student who wrote to a Washington Post columnist recently to ask how he built his "personal brand" got a very public and provocative response. Gene Weingarten wrote a column condemning the way "branding" is ruining journalism and criticizing the professor who issued the assignment.</p><p>"The best way to build a brand is to take a three-foot length of malleable iron and get one end red-hot. Then, apply it vigorously to the buttocks of the instructor who gave you this question. You want a nice, meaty sizzle," he wrote.</p>

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21 Jun

Top 100 non-fiction books of all time

Over in the UK, the Guardian has published a list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. We’re talking way back to 400 BC here (The Histories by […]

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21 Jun

Inside Christie Blatchford’s goodbye party

J-Source reporter Alex Bosanac caught up with the former Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford at the paper’s send-off party last week to chat about Blatchford’s move to Postmedia, her […]

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16 Jun

The ethics of reporting on baby Storm: did journalists make a mistake?

Earlier this week, Margaret Somerville, director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law and McGill University, wrote a story for The Mark questioning whether journalists made a mistake when […]

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14 Jun

The future of network news

It turns out the future is looking pretty good, writes Ellin Bessner. Indeed, the eastern regional director for Global News, Mike Omelus, believes there’s never been a better time to […]

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13 Jun

Interviewing a pro: Hana Gartner on CBC’s Q

What’s it like to interview someone with three decades worth of experience asking their own questions? For the answer to this question, check out Jian Ghomeshi’s interview with Hana Gartner […]

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