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16 Aug

News ageism

We’ve learned how to write about race, religion, ability and sexual orientation…so why are reporters so insensitive when writing anyone over 50? On his Reflections of a Newsosaur blog, Alan […]

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16 Aug

Journalism warning labels

Comedian/blogger Tom Scott has created a series of journalism warning labels that can be applied to a variety of stories. Scott writes: “It seems a bit strange to me that […]

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9 Aug

Quebec undemocratic for barring journos: RWB

Reporters Without Borders has taken the Quebec government to task for backing the press gallery’s decision to bar reporters from Le Journal de Montreal. The decision was made during  the […]

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6 Aug

CBSC rules news reports accurate and fair

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has released its decision on two news reports aired on CTV British Columbia in May, 2009, one about seal fur and the other about an […]

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6 Aug

Journalist offered job as spy

Freelance journalist Mary Cuddehe was offered a job as a corporate spy to investigate a major company. She writes in a first-person feature for The Atlantic: “…just then my cell […]

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3 Aug

Open press gallery to all journalists: an open letter

An open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urges the House of Commons to allow all journalists access to the parliamentary press gallery, not just the “clique” members of the […]

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29 Jul

WikiLeaks vs NYT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called the New York Times “pusillanimous” and “unprofessional” after the publication chose not to link to the leaked Afghan war log documents directly. NYT chastised […]

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29 Jul

Blatchford faults media for believing friendly-fire reports

In a column for the Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford writes that the Canadian media were too quick to jump on reports that friendly fire had killed four Canadian soldiers. […]

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27 Jul

Scandals at the Telegraph-Journal

Wafergate, plagiarism and unexpected firings: 2009 was full of scandal at the Irvings’ flagship daily. Why Neil Reynolds has been called to the rescue—again. This week we feature Chelsea Murray‘s […]

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26 Jul

“We need more opinion in news, not less”

In the wake of journalists being punished and/or fired for expressing their opinions, Micheal Arrington of TechCrunch writes that readers have a right to know what a journalist’s opinions are. […]

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