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    Cult Journalism, or, The day the whale exploded

    Move over, This Is Spinal Tap and The Rocky Horror Picture Show –a blast from the past (sorry) has become a cult journalism classic on the Internet with a reported 350-million hits. Forty years ago Oregon journalist Paul Linnman was assigned by an ABC affiliate to report on a scheme to get rid of a…

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    Will Al Jazeera inject new ideas in news coverage?

    After some initial roadblocks, Al Jazeera English is on its way to Canada – good news for those of us who got hooked on their international coverage while travelling abroad. Details are in this J-Source report. With its 70 bureaus around the globe, including a proposed Canadian bureau, we can expect new voices, more news,…

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    Death and democracy

    How did the supposedly democratic Philippines rise to the top of the deadly international league table for the killing of journalists? Investigative journalist and author Terry Gould provided timely and shocking background to the deaths of 29 journalists there last week in an op-ed in Saturday’s Globe & Mail. The journalists were covering an attempt…

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    Rules for kidnapping blackouts?

    Should the media automatically observe news blackouts in all kidnapping cases?  That was the question at the heart of a panel discussion organized by the Canadian Journalism Foundation at the University of Toronto’s Innis College on November 17. WATCH a video of the panel discussion. Arguing in favour was former hostage Robert Fowler, who said…

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    L’importance du journalisme en politique municipale

    Mathieu Dessureault, Université Laval «Le maire Régis Labeaume a-t-il un pouvoir de décision absolu?», telle a été la question lancée par Bruno Savard, animateur de l’émission Mise à jour du 3 novembre dernier au Canal Vox de Québec. Cette prémisse a servi de base à une émission principalement axée sur l’importance du journalisme face à…

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    CRTC Approves Al Jazeera English

    The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today approved a request to add Al Jazeera English to the list of satellite television channels eligible for digital distribution in Canada. The decision means Canadian cable and satellite TV services can offer the 24-hour news channel — the English-language counterpart to the Arabic-language Al Jazeera — to…