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18 Mar

Google algorithm designed to favour original content

To combat the profliferation of sites designed only to attract Google’s SEO bots, the search giant has refined its algorithm to favour sites that produce regular original content, The New […]

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18 Mar

The best Japan infographics

The Society for News Design has gathered together some of the most informative infographics produced by news organizations in response to the diasters in Japan. Also worth checking out: SND’s […]

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16 Mar

The Walrus on editing a story by a convicted murderer

Usually, if you write a cover story for The Walrus, the process is relatively straightforward. Not so with the April issue, which features an essay about freedom written by a […]

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16 Mar

Off the record: Confidential sources and the courts

By Melissa Wilson, Associate Editor, Precedent Magazine.An ethical dilemma: Is it okay to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family? Ethicists and scholars have been debating this […]

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16 Mar

Need a source? 5 online resouces

<p>Five websites offer time-strapped journos quick access to sources,<a href="http://ijnet.org/stories/5-ways-find-sources-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The International Journalists' Network</a> (IJN) reports.<br />

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15 Mar

Standing on the shoulders of a giant: George Bain, Canada’s first national affairs columnist

The uncompromising legacy of George Bain, Canada’s first national affairs columnist. This week we feature Iain Alec Bain’s story from the winter issue of The Ryerson Review of Journalism. By […]

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15 Mar

Journalist offered bribe to unpublish story

Toronto Star fashion journalist David Graham was recently offered a bribe to make a story disappear from the Star’s archives. Public editor Kathy English writes about a Toronto Star first: […]

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15 Mar

Lost and bound: literary journalists turn to books

Now that literary journalism is all but gone from magazines, many writers are choosing to walk a perilous tightrope to books. Good luck with that. This week we feature Meghan […]

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15 Mar

Bloggers on the ground report on Japan’s disasters

The New York Times has profiled Global Voices, a volunteer-driven organization and platform that allows bloggers around the world to translate, aggregate and link to online content. NYT’s Jennifer Preston […]

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15 Mar

State of the Media: NPR the juggernaut

The New York Times‘ David Carr reports one of the few “bright spots” of the recently released State of the Media report is NPR, the “unlikely juggernaut” that was the […]

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