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The Orange County Register has assigned 70 reporters to cover one baseball game. Yes, seventy. 

Is CBC/Radio-Canada planning to return to advertising on their channels to make ends meet? We'll have to wait until April 4 to find out, when CBC plans to announce how it will deal with the 10 per cent cut that was handed to it in last week's federal budget, but as Anne Caroline Desplanques reports,…

Researchers at Ryerson University are asking Canadians to share their opinions on the future of Canada’s press councils.

At some point, nearly every journalist has been guilty of having used the oft-dreaded, always-loathed jargon in his or her copy. When you read this list, try saying some of them out loud—they'll probably sound weird. That’s because nobody (outside of police and spokespeople, maybe) actually says this stuff in real life.

Last year's adaptation of The Elements of Style wasn't the first time young, white, educated males have parodied hip hop, and it surely won't be the last. But Chris Richardson, a media studies PhD candidate at Western University, says that lost in the chuckles and grammatical debates, however, is a discussion of what it means…

With the Magazines Canada Carbon Footprint Compendium, a variety of magazine groups from across Canada have come together to create a document that accepts responsibility for magazines’ carbon footprints, by nature of being print-based, and sets out different ways they can reduce them.

After Greg Smith wrote last week's scathing New York Times op-ed outlining in detail why he left Goldman Sachs, there were a number of employees who took it upon themselves to explain why they left their morally bankrupt jobs. Tim Kiladze, now a business reporter at The Globe and Mail, was one of them.

We asked how you felt about the local and national media’s handling of Michael Rafferty’s trial thus far, especially in the context of tweeting Terri-Lynne McClintic’s gruesome testimony last week. Belinda Alzner explains the arguments for and against providing details in such a sensitive case.

"S'up Easy-E!" — Real-life Kathryn Marshall to real-life Ezra Levant on Twitter.

Mark Coddington rounds up discussion surrounding the use of anonymous sources in the wake of the New York Times op-ed about a Goldman Sachs employee's very public resignation.