Archive
16 Mar

Is ‘free news’ possible?

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8 Mar

National Post ruling

Watcha gonna do when they come for your documents? Police and the courts have more power over reporters than some of us realize, argues Jay Somerset in the Ryerson Review. […]

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3 Mar

Human rights debate

Did publishing “The Future Belongs to Islam” and the Muhammad cartoons violate human rights? Each incident resulted in complaints to human rights commissions (the latter having recently been retracted). The […]

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24 Feb

Journalism education revealed

When Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dean Nicholas Lemann accidentally emailed out his own self-evaluation last week, students got a glimpse into how schools are responding to critique of journalism […]

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22 Feb

The religion beat

This week’s Big Issue continues the conversation about what Columbia University professor Ari Goldman calls “the best beat in journalism” — religion. Our contributors offer updates and opinions in Town […]

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10 Dec

Kids: What’s a journalist to do?

This September, after leaving an Etobicoke house party, 17-year-old Taylor Whitney fell down a steep embankment of a ravine near the Humber River and died. The press zeroed in on […]

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