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The New York Times has posted on its site today photographs taken in Afghanistan by Joao Silva right up to when he stepped on a landmine and lost both his legs in…

Armed with a cellphone and enormous courage, “citizen journalists” are reporting on life in North Korea. There are some clips at that site with subtitles and a story on why some of…

So, the consensus about the latest Wikileaks posting is that we Canadians won’t get mad at Obama, even if he said nasty things about us. But some pundits are wondering if it’s…

Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail‘s award-winning correspondent in New Delhi, talks about the occupational hazards (and rewards) of being a woman foreign correspondent in Africa and India. She also offers five…

I know I should have posted something before now but, to be honest, what is there to say about the CBC web redesign that hasn’t already been said about the Globe? Like,…

The co-founder of Twitter has told Reuters he wants to work with other news organizations to create a Twitter News Service. To read more about what Biz Stone envisions, click through. 

Ann Louise Bardach and the New York Times have been fighting for five years to stop the reporter from being ordered to testify in the pre-trial of a Cuban anti-Castro militant indicted…

An interesting posting on why one journalist — I know, there are many — thinks the rest of us should understand Twitter at the very least and get onto it. The CBC’s John…

Just wondering: Did anyone else out there confuse today’s Globe with a Loblaws flyer? And is it just coincidence the dominant colour is the same one in the front-page ad?

The facts are unclear but it appears a Reuters journalist has died bringing the truth to us all. When does it end?