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Sun TV’s first-week ratings are out and they are, surprisingly, dim. 

The National Post published an interesting article by Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, yesterday. On the whole, the article is about RRSPs and TFSAs and dispelling the middle class myth. Here’s what’s interesting: Yalnizyan blames the media. She writes: “Newspapers make their living by writing around the facts. But…

Last night, journalists were invited to learn search secrets at Google Canada’s HQ in Toronto. The Society of American Business Editors and Writers’s second foray into Canada promised to make journalists smarter researchers and “get the most from the web.” Didn’t make it? That’s OK. Former J-Source associate editor and current ScribbleLive digital journalism specialist…

Canadians are increasingly using social networking sites to get their news, according to a recently released study. But are they listening to journalists? J-Source reports.

Style can be a sticky thing, and this one’s been bugging us: Once an election has been called, should media refer still refer to the Prime Minister by his (or her) title? Or should we drop it and refer to the person simply as “X” Party Leader? We asked former CBC grammar guru Judy Maddren…

Alright so a week has passed since the debut of Sun TV. While the network is still taking its first steps and there are, surely, more things to come, we still want to know: What did everyone think of the first seven days? Well, one thing’s for sure: few left their screens overly impressed, or…

On April 15, the London Free Press launched an initiative to help the community better interact with the paper. Citizens can now contact the paper with ideas, and the paper will provide an editor to help bring those stories to print — with the citizen’s byline. Innovative, right? Only if you plan on squelching the…

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 years. Given the recent move in Quebec and some chatter on the Canadian Association of Journalists list, I thought some people might be…

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 years, his observations are interesting.

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