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Disclosure: This radio clip link is for a show done by my friend, Sean Holman, and includes my husband, Alan Bass, who has been researching and speaking on professionalizing journalism for several…

Jay Rosen’s been teaching journalism for a quarter-century and, recognizing the milestone, he’s written about what he thinks he knows about it. Given the changes that have occurred in the past 25…

Salon has an interesting article on war-zone journalism, one that is unfortunately apropos today.

Just when you thought you could finally get NOW magazine’s nearly-naked picture of Rob Ford out of your head, it’s back. A couple weeks ago, NOW magazine received national and international attention…

At least one Canadian news organization has a new policy moderating how its journalists interact (or don’t) on online comment sections. But what about news readers? Racist, classist and sexist remarks are…

We at J-Source are always on the look-out for new and interesting ways of covering big stories and events. Thanks to the increasing social media storm surrounding the so-crowned Twitter election, we’ve…

With less than five hours left until launch time, Sun Media’s David Akin is none too happy about some of the coverage surrounding this evening’s Sun News Network debut. Considering both Akin’s…

The New Yorker posted a long article by Jonathan Franzen that could only be accessed on its Facebook page by hitting the “like” button. That move led to a substantial increase in…

Here’s the lead in a story the software creators Narrative Science have released in response to a challenge by the website Deadspin. Apparently the folks at Deadspin cast some aspersions on the…

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