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27 May

It’s here: HuffPo launches in Canada

Arianna Huffington was in Toronto yesterday for the Canada launch of the Huffington Post. So what did she have to say? For starters, she’s had her eye on Canada — […]

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26 May

Postmedia CEO talks paywall on today’s Metro Morning

Yesterday, we reported that Postmedia has started a metered paywall experiment with two of its papers, the Montreal Gazette and the Victoria Times Colonist. Today, Metro Morning‘s Matt Galloway talked […]

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26 May

Five Questions for David Skok, Nieman Fellowship winner

J-Source caught up with GlobalNews.ca managing editor David Skok, who was recently named one of this year’s Nieman Fellowship winners. He is the first Canadian online journalist to win the […]

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24 May

Canadian Association of Journalist 2011 Round-up

Couldn’t make it to the CAJ conference in Ottawa from May 13-15? We did. Read on for a round-up from some of our favourite sessions, and some great quotes from […]

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24 May

Lawrence Martin asks: Has the fourth estate lost its tenacity?

In today’s Globe and Mail, columnist Lawrence Martin asks a worthy question: have we lost our tenacity? Martin starts by quoting James Thomson, once curator for the Neiman media fellowships […]

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20 May

Is content really king?

Yesterday, we told J-Source readers to go check out Ira Basen‘s new article in Maisonneuve about algorithms and content farms. Today, Basen shares his thoughts on the top farm, Demand […]

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19 May

Atlantic decides to keep experiment in “radical transparency”

On Wednesday, the online publishing arm of The Atlantic, dubbed The Atlantic Wire, decided to open its online editing process to the public. At first they thought it would be […]

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19 May

Ah, yes, the good old days

I confess; reading this article brought tears to my eyes. Which, I suppose makes me a definite journalistic dinosaur, but let me share with you just one paragraph about Charles […]

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19 May

Can J-profs still do the work?

An editor in Australia is pursuing a unique concept for online journalism. He’s hired working journalists as editors but academics as reporters. Andrew Jaspan said he believes this will bring […]

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19 May

Life after 30

Ever wonder what happened to John Temple, editor of the Rocky Mountain News when it folded? He found a second life online and, in this Columbia Journalism Review article, talks […]

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