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Cliff Lonsdale hitchhiked at 16 into an African war zone to kick-start his journalistic career. Here he reviews the Amanda Lindhout debate and explains what he tells young journalists these days.

Most journalists strive never to become part of the story — except in life-or-death cases when our humanity demands action. The Toronto Star has decided that climate change is such a case…

Compared to the limp competition in Canada, Germany’s media wars are … interesting. “Giant Penis Sparks Bizarre Media War,” headlines DER SPIEGEL.

The obsession with Tiger Woods proves it: we’ve lost our marbles. Australia is drying up. Dubai is in the toilet. The Large Hadron Collider is smashing atoms. Our world is full of…

Move over, This Is Spinal Tap and The Rocky Horror Picture Show –a blast from the past (sorry) has become a cult journalism classic on the Internet with a reported 350-million hits.…

Oh, for those good old days — just last year wasn’t it? — when analysts trumpeted the economic value of the “creative class … “

Should the media automatically observe news blackouts in all kidnapping cases?  That was the question at the heart of a panel discussion organized by the Canadian Journalism Foundation at the University of…

“Get over it” — best take this week on  journalism angst …

“… the PMO could not be reached for comment.”’nuff said.

American journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now on public radio,  was detained and interrogated at a Canadian border crossing about whether she planned to talk about the Olympics in Vancouver in…