Category / Commentary
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One photojournalist who doesn’t want to die having never worked for a newspaper
Jonas Bendiksen is an award-winning Noweigan photojournalist who has shot for National Geographic and has a second place finish in the Daily Life Stories category for World Press Photo to his name. While he has…
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Toronto Star publishes apology for unattributed material taken from The Globe and Mail
The Toronto Star has edited an online version of a business article and published an apology after it was discovered that parts of the article had been taken from an earlier report by The Globe…
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Photojournalist John D McHugh launches new watermark iPhone app Marksta
A London, UK photojournalist has launched an app he hopes will help photographers retain an element of control over their copyrighted work when posting photographs online.
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What have we learned from Newtown?
After the frenzied scramble comes, in time, self-examination. It needs to be the other way round, says Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.
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The future of community news is in capturing the local
Despite Sun Media shutting down a number of its weekly titles recently, community news experts and editors aren’t buying the idea that print is dead. As Ryan Mallough reports, there may be a number…
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Why shouldn’t newsrooms work with the marketing department?
No journalist would ever suggest that commercial interests should override editorial independence. But as The Canadian Press editor-in-chief Scott White explains, some editorial managers are saying the time has come to reinvent and re-examine…
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The role of satire—and CBC’s This is That—in a post-humorous world.
What is the role of satire in a world where you regularly double-check real news headlines to make sure its not a story from the Onion?
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Recap: CJFE’s A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting
Join us at 7 p.m. EST when CJFE's Laura Tribe will be liveblogging the organization's annual gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting.
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Cape Cod Times fires writer after serial source fabrication discovered
In journalism news south of the border, on Tuesday, Cape Cod Times publisher Peter Meyer and editor Paul Pronovost revealed that 31-year veteran writer Karen Jeffrey had fabricated at least 69 sources in 34 stories and…
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Discussion on The Agenda: When it comes to gender representation in media, do we need binders full of women?
When Mitt Romney made his now-infamous “binders full of women” comment during the second U.S. Presidential debate back in October, the Internet latched on. As with most viral things these days, Twitter…