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    When a story doesn’t pan out…

    Journalist Judith Warner thought she had a great story to tell about the overmedication of American youth. And then her research undermined her premise…

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    Toronto-based Tamil newspaper attacked

    Uthayan, a weekly Tamil newspaper, had its Toronto office vandalized over the weekend, apparently by people who disliked its reporting on a meeting between Kula Sellathurai, president of the Canada-Sri Lanka Business Council and the United Tamil Council of Canada, and Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka.

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    Bah!

    The headline sums up Clifford Stoll’s nice rant in Newsweek: “The Internet? Bah!” Or — for readers here who don’t care to click through — “When most everyone shouts, few listen.” Hear, hear.

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    CHEK-TV, nouveau modèle de télévision indépendante?

    Une station de télévision indépendante, appartenant à ses employés. N’ajustez pas votre appareil: le personnel de CHEK-TV, à Victoria (C.-B.) a bel et bien racheté la station de Canwest Global, qui était menacée de fermeture. CHEK-TV a remporté le prix de l’intégrité journalistique nouvellement créé par notre site partenaire, J-Source. L’annonce du prix est ici…

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    Social media now a key info source for journalists

    Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook are commonly used by journalists as sources of information, according to a survey by Cision and George Washington University. More than half (56 per cent) of 371 respondents said social media was important or somewhat important for researching and producing stories. Although Google (100 per cent), corporate websites…

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    ‘A huge sea change’ in libel law

    CBC journalist Harvey Cashore called December 22 “the most important day in the history of media law” at a Toronto event debating the Supreme Court decision that created a new libel defence. Ted Fairhurst reports.

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    Canulars : quand les médias se font berner

    Collaboration spéciale Marie-Noël Gagné et Jean-Philippe ThébergeUniversité Laval Ces mauvaises blagues qui prennent d’assaut les médias depuis toujours peuvent aussi bien condamner leur auteur que lui assurer une enviable visibilité. Il suffit de penser aux Yes Men, qui multiplient les canulars de toutes sortes depuis 1993. Ce sont eux qui, en décembre dernier, lors de…

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    Ces mystérieuses données de diffusion

    Les entreprises de presse ont le don d’interpréter les données de diffusion de la manière la plus favorable : au Québec, chacun trouve matière à se féliciter des résultats des enquêtes NadBank et BBM. Pour sa part, le quotidien français La Tribune conteste carrément les données de l’organisme de certification OJD, selon lesquelles il aurait…

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    Star series highlights advances in CAR

    A new Toronto Star series shows just how far computer-assisted reporting has come. Race Matters is a follow up the monumental 2002 Race and Crime project.  Reporter Jim Rankin fought seven years to obtain several police databases and found police were three times more likely to stop and question blacks than they were to do…