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    Retirement at risk for thousands of journalists

    Benefits for thousands of retired Canadian newspaper workers are at risk. Reported the Hamilton Spectator: “About 3,000 retirees of the Southam newspaper chain, including former Spectator staff, received a letter just before Christmas warning them their retirement benefits are in jeopardy. While coverage will continue “for the time being,” the retirees were warned the company…

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    Why do we do it?

    Michelle Lang’s death capped the “deadliest year ever” for media workers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with reports of deaths ranging from 68 to 130. At Berkeley campus, a panel of American war correspondents asked the big question: why do we risk our lives for a largely complacent public? The simple answer is,…

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    Dying to tell the truth

    What is the shocked journalism community to take from the death of a young reporter who had so much to live for? Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, offers some reflections.

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    Journalists mourn Michelle Lang

    A note pad and a pencil – tools of our trade – adorned journalist Michelle Lang’s casket on Friday on the Kandahar Airfield as it was carried to the aircraft to return to Canada. The Calgary Herald reporter was killed Wednesday when a landmine exploded under the light armoured vehicle that she was riding in, along with…

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    Lentement, le journaliste tisse son fil sur la Toile

    Le journalisme est en pleine effervescence depuis des années. On parle de changements majeurs, de virage, de mutation, de crise et même de révolution. Les « tisserands du 4e pouvoir » sont en pleine tourmente. Le débat baigne notamment dans un maelstrom métajournalistique confondant. Dans ce tourbillon de leitmotivs émergent des tendances qui, même si…