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    Monday mayhem

    Apropos of nothing — or just because it’s Monday: Journalist suspected of murdering women in Macedonia Story of a journalist Stripping His Way to a Ph.D. Reporter breaks back after riding inside inflatable ball

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    Is it broke?

    “Journalism is broken,” said a speaker at a lecture series put on by the U.K. Guardian. The series, which is partly available online, asked, “Is it?”

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    Dossier: Cuba, Internet sous la loupe

    Vincent Grou et Diego Creimer, Radio-Canada | Certaines mesures mises en place après l’accession officielle de Raul Castro à la tête de Cuba, le 24 février 2008, ont laissé entrevoir la possibilité d’une ouverture du régime. En effet, en mars 2008, le gouvernement autorisait la vente libre d’ordinateurs, de télévisions, de magnétoscopes et de DVD…

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    Hommage à Villedieu

    Mario Roy, La Presse | L’animateur de l’émission Les années lumière à la Première chaîne de Radio-Canada, Yanick Villedieu, vient d’être fait chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec. On signale ainsi sa grande contribution dans le domaine du journalisme scientifique au Québec.

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    MediaPart et le journalisme citoyen

    Thierry Ternisien, MediaPart | Le concept de journalisme citoyen, porté sous des formes diverses par de nombreux sites citoyen, me parait, pour au moins trois raisons, être une impasse. Restant dans le paradigme actuel du journalisme, il met au centre de son projet la collecte et la vérification de l’information. Or, ce dont nous souffrons…

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    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 the energy to chase young readers. But young people are an audience in search of substance according to a recent post on J-Source by Alan…

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    Web archive of public policy research launched

    Researchers and others should check out Policy Archive, a new searchable, indexed website that hosts public policy research papers from more than 220 think tanks and research institutes. The site – created by the Center for Governmental Studies and the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis University Library – has already collected 12,000 policy and research…

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    Tim Russert, icon or poster boy

    The explosion of news about deceased U.S. broadcaster Tim Russert (at one point in the week a Google news search returned some 10,000 hits) reminds me of how O.J. Simpson burst into the global public consciousness in 1994 via a live televised police chase of Simpson in his white Bronco. Simpson, I maintain, was previously…

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    Floating feet

    “Why,” asks the Globe and Mail, “are newshounds around the world so enraptured by a grim West Coast story about human flotsam?” OK, it’s a rhetorical question — every reporter and reader knows it’s an engaging story; the fact that it’s engaging is why the Globe devotes yet more ink to a story about the…