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Steve Paikin thanks Twitter followers for catching his mistakes

“In the four and a half years I've been tweeting, I've managed to punch out 8,873 tweets. I try my best to make sure they're accurate, and useful to the 36,000 or so…
La Presse takes big gamble with launch of free tablet edition

Montreal-based La Presse has launched tablet edition of the French daily today for free, after investing $40 million. At a time of economic restraint, job losses and paywalls at other newspapers to make up…
Happy Birthday Sun News Network (and why it might not get another one after the CRTC hearings)

April 18 marks Sun News Network's second birthday, but its days might be numbered. Media blogger Steve Faguy looks at why Sun News Network is unlikely to get its wish for mandatory carriage…
La Presse+ : «gratuitement pour la vie»

C’est sur un véritable changement des habitudes de s’informer que mise La Presse avec sa nouvelle application La Presse+, disponible depuis jeudi matin : le pari que ses lecteurs posséderont tous un iPad sous…
How Canadian startup ScribbleLive helped report the Boston Marathon explosions in real-time

When Boston.com buckled under the pressure of the traffic that news of the explosions sent its way, the site redirected its homepage to ScribbleLive, allowing Boston.com to still update their readers in…
La Presse+ : un concurrent à Radio-Canada?

La nouvelle application pour tablettes de La Presse sera officiellement lancée jeudi. Le tout sera pensé pour le web, oui, mais tourné et présenté pour le petit écran, chuchote-t-on à l'interne. On estime que…
Canadian journalist Kennedy Jawoko named International Knight Journalism Fellow

The Knight Fellowships program encourages journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. Jawoko’s proposal looks at a portal that facilitates connections and helps incubate ideas among East African journalists, according to the program website.
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador sweeps RTNDA Atlantic Awards with 9 wins

CBC Newfoundland and Labrador won big last weel at the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada awards for the Atlantic Region. Peter Cowan won the Dan McArthur award for investigative journalism in radio for…
UPDATED: OpenFile cheques clearing; money still owed

Cheques went out earlier in April, although not all contributors have been paid in full yet.
Matt Gurney: Boston attacks show traditional journalists that Twitter has come of age

The much-maligned Twitter didn’t do much better than conventional sources of hard news, but it wasn’t doing much worse, either, writes National Post columnist Matt Gurney.

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