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Profits at Canada’s biggest private television broadcasters plunged by almost 93 per cent last year, said a report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Amid comments about the Canadian Press story…

In yet another twist on user-pay, US-based Spot.us solicits reader donations to cover the cost of journalistic investigations. The problem? The reporting just isn’t very good, says James Rainey of the Los…

What on earth are the British thinking these days, aiming their guns at their messengers? The Brits harassed five top financial journalists who appeared at a government hearing in London to defend…

Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly was expelled by Sudan, where she had been reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg and Irin, reported AFP. A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman spoke out against the…

Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce the newspaper…

We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos per Internet…

Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a report on…

The 2008 death toll in journalism, reported the International Federation of Journalists, was 109 reporters and other news media workers killed on assignment. That figure looks better than 175 deaths last year…

Utne has the goods on the guy tracking the death of North American media on Twitter. “The media is dying” is a virtual death knell of journalism, so relentless in its bad…

New anti-terrorism laws set to be introduced in the UK next month are expected to increase the powers of police office to stop photographers from taking photos in public places.