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Slate‘s Jack Shafer thinks America’s Pulitzer Prizes — announced today — are mere “industry peacockery.” Shafer says Joseph Pulitzer was “one of the inventors of yellow journalism,” and today’s prizes are too…

A court in Iran sentenced Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years in prison for spying…

AbitibiBowater, the world’s biggest newsprint producer, has filed for bankruptcy protection. It was only a matter of time ….  Reports by the Globe and Mail here, Bloomberg, Financial Post…

The kerfuffle between CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi of Q and whatsits name … Billy Bob something… reveals much about the uneasy relationship between the arts media and the most popular entertainers,…

An extension to April 21 for Canwest Global Communications in its lending crisis….

CanWest shares closed today at a record low of 23 cents and the company teetered on a crucial deadline to pay bond holders — or risk bankruptcy protection. The only two company…

CanWest Global closed the day’s trading at a record low of 25 cents following a slew of critical assessments of its financial crisis; analysts called Canwest shares worthless. Too many good employees…

Derek Weiler, literary critic and editor-in-chief of Canadian book industry magazine Quill & Quire, has died at age 40. Quill & Quire reported his death on its web site, and posted an…

The New York Times has launched its “Global Edition,” combining the international reporting of the Times and the International Herald Tribune to provide a “24/7 flow of geopolitical, business, sports and fashion…

The Tyee asks: “Could New Breed of ‘Low Profit’ Firms Save Our News Media?” A story considers whether hybrid ownership models, now operating in US and UK using charitable and private capital,…