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When breaking news hits, the first available reporter grabs the phones or hits the street. There’s no time for fancy database analysis or in-depth investigation. Or is there?

Chris Cramer has been at the forefront of building a culture of safety for journalists and media workers around the world.  In an interview with WHYY/NPR’s “Fresh Air,” the honorary president of the International News Safety Institute reflects on his own experience as a hostage and the challenges of weighing journalistic risks and rewards when…

Canadian freelancers will soon be able to hold a union card. The Canadian Freelance Union will launch its inaugural meeting in October, under the wing of CEP.  The new union aims to restore what was once a decent living for journalists and other media professionals. Organizers have a daunting job ahead. “Over the past three…

Collaboration spéciale de Sylvain Larocque, journaliste économique En sortant de la conférence annuelle de la Newspaper Guild, le plus important syndicat de journalistes nord-américain, on ne peut espérer qu’une chose: que la profonde crise des médias états-uniens ne se transporte pas au nord de la frontière dans toute sa force.

Online advertising revenues grew by 29 per cent to more than $1.6 billion in 2008, reported the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada.  Some 11 percent of ad spending on major media are now online, the bureau reported. Publisher revenue from online advertising in Canada more than quadrupled in five years, said a news release, to…

Former CBC producer and trainer Tim Knight remembers walking into Walter Cronkite’s CBS office in 1971 and asking him to help change the world.

Britain is following the lead of the United States in establishing an independent investigative journalism fund. A number of prominent British journalists have banded together to create The Investigations Fund, supporting public interest journalism. Its mission: “to support the sort of investigation of grass root stories and services that is dying by the minute as…

Investigative journalism was already on the ropes when the economic crisis hit. But where there’s a will, there’s a way. The Canadian-American Real News Network was one of the first efforts to keep the teeth in journalism on both sides of the border. More recently, the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting has emerged as a…