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Journalism, New Technologies and Media Development: The Transformation of News in the Digital Age An interactive, live conversation between scholars and practitioners Join us, Tuesday July 14 (at 4 pm Budapest time,…

Sándor Orbán remembers when the biggest problem faced by Eastern Europe’s media organizations was not being able to burn through dollars fast enough to please donors. Now, twenty years after the fall…

We’re all familiar with press freedom rankings, like Freedom House’s annual Freedom of the Press Index. But are they valid? This was the question of the day at the Central European University…

Documentary producer Ira Basen created a two-part series called News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media on “where the news business is going, now that it’s everybody’s…

Shares of Canwest Global Communications plunged into freefall this week, dropping to historic lows before closing Friday at 13 cents, off from a 52-week high of $3.59. The fall comes on the…

Have we hit bottom yet? Two recent media business developments suggest not. La Presse will no longer publish on Sundays, effective June 28, reported the Globe and Mail. Standard and Poor Poor’s…

Associated Press will distribute stories produced by four non-profit news organizations that specialize in investigative reporting – ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Center for Investigative Reporting.…

What, if anything, does Raitt-tapegate say about the practice of journalism? The story about cabinet minister, Lisa Raitt, the private conversation she had last January with her aide, Jasmine MacDonnell, the accidental…

Creditors of Canwest Global Communications Corp. (CGS) are bringing in a senior executive to lead a financial restructuring of the company, “possibly superseding chief executive officer Leonard Asper,” reported the Globe and…

Canwest missed another payment. So what? …