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Reporters Without Borders announced today it will help out WikiLeaks in its attempt to stay online: “This is a gesture of support for WikiLeaks’ right to publish information without being obstructed,” it…

The Centre for International Media Assistance, based in the U.S., has released a report on citizen journalism. This is how it describes its purpose:“This paper examines both the opportunities and challenges facing…

The New York Post decided to make a statement about Michael Vick, thanks to some creative photoshop. It’s cute but it sure ain’t journalism. Or is it?

Back in May, Jeffrey Dvorkin, one of the folks who was involved with As It Happens back in the 1990s, wrote in his blog about Barbara Budd’s sudden retirement announcement: “The ostensible…

The Journal Register in Connecticut has opened its community-focused newsroom, a place where that has issued an “invitation to the audience we serve to participate in the newsgathering process and to work…

The Globe’s John Doyle apparently counts The National’s “At Issue Panel” with regulars such as journalists Andrew Coyne and Chantel Hebert, as among the “most irritating” people on TV.  “Blah-blah, yada-yada” is…

I googled Bradley Manning today for news hits and got 9,120. Did the same thing for Julian Assange and got 901,000. Which makes me wonder why the media is so drawn to Assange…

Columbia Journalism Review has posted its top errors and corrections for the year. And the winner is . . . 

An article on the class website of the Journalism Program at the University of Miami makes what, at first blush, seems like an obvious point: Journalists who cover traumatic events–fires, accidents, plane…

Apparently this posting on the Canadian Association of Journalists list-serv has prompted more attention than it likely deserves. I’ve been ignoring it, chalking it up to too many people with too much…