The end of silly season
While most of us lament the end of summer, writes Lisa Taylor, there is one thing to cheer: the end of silly season in news. An examination of how endless sunny days + slow news + journalist = lapse in critical thinking.
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Somalia ignored as crisis mounts
Summer headlines were captured by the Layton funeral, the Norway killings, and an ongoing U.S. political circus. Meanwhile, an immense humanitarian disaster in Somalia lingered in the back pages. The Atlanta Post accuses North American media of ignoring the crisis. By early August, the spreading famine finally began to capture the U.S. news cycle, and…
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Focusing on Jack Layton: How working in smaller markets prepared one reporter to cover one of the biggest stories of the year
CBC Videographer Charlsie Agro was called up from Windsor to work in Toronto this summer. Little did she know she'd be covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the death of NDP leader Jack Layton. What did Agro learn? Market size doesn't matter when it comes to the essential skills of journalism.
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WikiLeaks calls NYT drooling, senile and evil
WikiLeaks and The New York Times are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.
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Guerre des hebdos: Quebecor attaque en Mauricie
Au lendemain de l'annonce de l'acquisition de deux hebdomadaires par Transcontinental dans l'Est du Québec, Quebecor riposte. Sa filiale Sun Media annonce le lancement de deux nouveaux hebdomadaires en Mauricie: L'Écho de Trois-Rivières et L'Écho de Shawinigan. Ils seront distribués dès demain à 101 000 foyers dans Le Sac Plus, le nouveau sac de circulaires…
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CTV Ottawa hits the road
CTV Ottawa's News at Six is ready to hit the road. The team will deliver its dinner hour newscast live at five locations across Eastern Ontario during the week of September 12th.
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The lede desk: curbing the cliché
Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the San Jose Mercury News from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.
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Can authors survive if the printed book dies?
The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) article about the end of books and writers on its website right now — and if you haven't read it yet, you should.
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Hebdos: Transcontinental s’étend dans l’Est du Québec
Médias Transcontinental étend sa toile dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent et en Gaspésie en acquérant la majorité des actifs de l'entreprise Avantage Consommateurs de l'Est du Québec. Cette transaction comprend les deux hebdomadaires, L'Avantage votre journal et L'Avantage gaspésien, le mensuel Le Régional, ainsi que le portail d'information régionale lavantage.qc.ca.
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Licensing journalists? Blame it on the CBC: Ezra Levant
The to-license-or-not-to-license debate is one of the most heated conversations in Canada's journalism world. Part of the anti-license faction? Well, according to Sun Media's Ezra Levant, you can point three fingers of blame: one at Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Christine St-Pierre, one at report writer Dominique Payette, and one at the CBC.