Category / Commentary
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Future of News: ScribbleLive talks to Jeff Jarvis on the value of liveblogging
ScribbleLive’s Dana Lacey chats with Jeff Jarvis, well-known American journalist, blogger, and professor at CUNY’s j-school.
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Romenesko: How I ended up leaving Poynter
Until now, Jim Romensko has kept mum over the Poynter-aggregation-attribution uproar. No longer.
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RCMP put on leash: Toronto Star
Journalists may have a tough time getting RCMP to go off-message thanks to a new protocol that puts officers on a much tighter leash.
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First years and the rush to publish
When one lecturer’s department at East Tennessee State University introduced a content-management system that put j-students’ first-ever stories in the public spotlight, the fallout was, as she puts it, “enough to make…
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The ethics of aggregation: Bert Archer
Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the Toronto Standard about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution uproar.
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Why every government hates the CBC: John Doyle
It isn’t just the current Conservative government that has a hate-on for the CBC, writes The Globe and Mail’s John Doyle. Every government in power since the CBC’s creation has had a…
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This time, journo Occupy sympathizer quits
Over the past few weeks, we’ve written about two Occupy protesters who were fired — and the reignited debate over journalists and sharing opinions. Well, not all journalist-Occupy sympathizers had to be…
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Why the Arab Spring isn’t the Facebook Revolution: Ottawa Citizen
Facebook Revolution. Twitter Revolution. Neither of the latest social media monikers given to the Arab Spring fit, writes the Ottawa Citizen’s Declan Hill. Or at least, not in the way many think.
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Taking stock of media and democracy
New developments in the media may not have such a positive effect on the openness of information after all. The quality of news hasn't fared too well, either.
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One soldier, one Tweet: remembering Canada’s war dead
Twitter gives its users a platform to broadcast, to promote, and to converse. Melanie Coulson tells us how one journalist used it to help Canadians remember the history of our fallen soldiers.…