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25 Feb

How to handle Rob Ford: A cartoonist’s advice to the media

National Post cartoonist/advice columnist Steve Murray has tackled a series of questions from concerned reporters covering Toronto’s City Hall beat under mayor Rob Ford. His advice, as always, is practical […]

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25 Feb

Yes, mothers can cover revolutions: An open letter to Peter Worthington

Reporter and OpenFile editor Wilf Dinnick has written an open letter to Toronto Sun columnist Peter Worthington in response to a column suggesting reporters who happen to be mothers shouldn’t […]

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25 Feb

Libyan state-run media tells one story; citizen journos tell another

In Libya, two different stories are being told. The state-run news media has ditched regular programming in favour of 24-hour broadcasts of pro-government rallies, poetry and songs in support of […]

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24 Feb

What journalists can learn from scientists (and vice versa)

Journalist Anne Jefferson has been tasked with writing about two versions of the same science story: one written by a scientist, the other by a science journalist. In a story […]

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24 Feb

One journalist’s survival guide to the Egyptian revolution

By Jaron GilinskyFreelance journalist and documentary filmmaker Jaron Gilinsky shooting video in Tahrir Square in CairoDuring the uprising that eventually ended the 30-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak, I became […]

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24 Feb

Magazine editors on the dearth of female bylines

After several journalists counted female bylines in American magazines and found the numbers depressingly unequal, Elissa Strauss asked the magazines to explain. An earlier story by VIDA found that The […]

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24 Feb

Blogging isn’t dead — it’s evolving

On Gigaom.com, Mathew Ingram takes issue with a New York Times story that claimed blogging is on its way out. The NYT cites Pew Centre research, noting that the data […]

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23 Feb

140 characters in search of a story

Social media are reshaping political coverage in Ottawa. For better and for worse. This week, we feature Ashley Csanady‘s story from the winter issue of The Ryerson Review of Journalism.Kady […]

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22 Feb

CBC panel discusses absence of female bylines

CBC Radio One on Sunday ran two interesting segments about journalism. The first: Too Few Women in Publishing. “Pick up nearly any quality magazine, read the list of contributors and […]

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22 Feb

Risky business for all journalists: Foreign reporting

Lara Logan’s sexual assault by a Cairo mob should have media organizations rethinking how they might better support reporters in the field, especially if they are female. Former CBC Radio […]

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