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    My students dont have TVs

    CBC News wants to attract younger viewers with its recent relaunch, but as Carleton broadcast journalist instructor Marilyn Mercer found out, many of her students don’t have TVs or cable subscriptions.

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    Investigating the carbon trading market

    Frontline/World and the Center for Investigative Reporting have announced a unique joint project which will encompass radio, print, television and online reports. Over the next year, they will report on what they call the “soon to be trillion-dollar carbon trading market.” With climate change such a pressing issue in the world today, this shapes up…

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    How are we doing on swine flu coverage?

    J-Source’s Covering Health Crises section has become a cauldron of news and views about journalism’s role when pandemics strike. The section anxiously awaits your comments. Food for thought includes: Is the media going overboard? Pregnant women, pandemics and politics Some day, you’ll cover a health crisis Clearly, journalists across Canada are struggling with the line…

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    PM Stephen Harper’s (visual) control issues

    “Is Stephen Harper going too far in trying to control his image?” asks The Globe and Mail.  “The Prime Minister’s Office is sending out a steady stream of publicity photos in the hope they will be used in newspapers and blogs across the country. But photojournalists believe Harper’s handlers are going too far…” This link…

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    Memories of the Berlin Wall

    Journalists recall covering Germany’s “9/11” — 20 years ago — when the Cold War that had seized the world for some two generations symbolically began to melt….

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    Globe takes report off Scribd at Auditor-General’s request

    The Globe and Mail Thursday took down a portion of the federal Auditor-General’s report that it had embedded in a news report using the internet social publishing service Scribd, after the Auditor-General’s office objected, citing Crown copyright. The Auditor-General’s office apparently was concerned that the chapter could be altered by third parties, and was satisfied…

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    Information gatherers vs. holders

    A Globe and Mail political blog reports on the newspaper’s spat with Auditor-General Sheila Fraser, over whether the Globe’s excerpting of a chapter ….