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ESPN published a feature yesterday about the “decomposed remains of the sports interview.” They look at how Twitter, scrums and press conferences have resulted in athletes and managers putting up their guard, turning…

News media have a responsibility to keep the news in proportion. John Miller argues that the past week's coverage of Peter MacKay's helicopter ride and Rob Ford's freeze on the Toronto Star has…

With 2011 revenues being less than expected, newspapers need to focus on creating digital advertising revenue next year. 

The Star's Public Editor, Kathy English, tries to track down whether one Occupy Toronto protestor used a pseudonym to the newspaper's reporters, without it being revealed to readers.  Then, he tells her…

Let the year-end best-of lists begin. The Canadian Press wants to know who the public thinks is the Newsmaker of the Year.

Joshua Benton wrote a piece for the Nieman Journalism Lab last week that is an interesting addition to the conversation surrounding Jim Romenesko’s departure from Poynter and the ethics of aggregation at large.

On Nov. 22, the CJF hosted a forum, "Freedom (or not) of information in Canada." Rhiannon Russell was there, and speaks to the discussion that Canada's Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, had with journalist Jim Bronskill…

It’s not every day that an investigative journalist finds out they have been unknowingly taken in by the very fraud they are probing. George Knapp found out mid-interview.

Today is National Freelancers Day in the U.K., and journalism.co.uk has compiled a list of 10 things every freelance journalist should know.

We talk to Daniel Tencer, business editor at Huffington Post Canada about the site’s first major investigative project, Mind the Gap, why they’re not piggybacking the Occupy movement, and what we can…