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11 Aug

The Games have begun how will they end?

Whether China’s officialdom likes it or not, the story of the Olympics is human rights – and journalists want a full set of reporting tools at their disposal. A dust-up […]

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4 Aug

Journalists have their own Olympic countdown

In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China is keeping a “reporting interference tally” on their Web site. Meanwhile, journalists scored a small victory this […]

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28 Jul

Oops

The Las Vegas Sun is in competition for the world’s longest correction, while New Hampshire’s Valley News has learned even a small mistake can look huge when it’s in your […]

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21 Jul

The fine art of the cartoon skewer

J-Source’s post on the Obama cover controversy led one reader to reminisce about the time his newspaper depicted the local town council as pigs. Meanwhile, Christopher Hitchens’ commentary in the […]

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14 Jul

No simple task

As a newly appointed Canwest VP of digital media, Kenneth Maclean has been tasked with growing the online versions of three newspapers. Our advice: take three aspirins and visit J-Source […]

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27 Jun

Vive le Qubec

For the past year, Québec journalists have pushed the envelope of debate over issues like protection of sources and the multimedia work crunch. This week’s Big Issue highlights some of […]

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22 Jun

Give up on youth?

Data on young people’s news habits has been mostly pessimistic, to the point where delegates to the recent World Conference of Newspaper Editors wondered if it may not be worth […]

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15 Jun

Copyright storm

Writers’ unions are among the few contrary voices in a storm of protest over Canada’s proposed new copyright legislation. “Everyone says it is complicated — but the anti-copyright community hasn’t […]

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7 Jun

Are you being spun?

Journalists are more productive than ever before – but what are they producing? A new British study finds that prepackaged spin accounts for a greater number of stories than most […]

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2 Jun

Maclean’s human rights case not over

While the complaints against Maclean’s were dismissed in Ontario in April, the BC human rights commission will hear the case this week. The CAJ — who stepped in the first time around calling for amendments […]

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