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Media and Chinese Olympics

Reporters Without Borders is stepping up its campaign to use China’s 2008 Olympics to draw attention to China’s repression of press rights, with a press conference in Montreal on Monday.
Harper and media control

Canadian Press reports that the RCMP is evicting journalists from a Charlottetown hotel lobby at the request of the Prime Minister’s Office. The federal Conservative party is holding its annual summer caucus…
Paul MOREIRA: entre rébellion narcissique et journalisme frelat

ECCE HOMO – Chroniques intempestives, Grégory J’aimais bien Paul MOREIRA lorsqu’il présentait son émission de reportages sur CANAL +, journaliste pointilleux mais sachant rester humble, il avait le mérite de nous proposer…
Quid du journalisme traditionnel ?

Tuner.be L’essor d’Internet et du multimédia a considérablement modifié la façon de «faire du journalisme». Celle-ci doit maintenant se conjuguer en termes de convergence. L’AJP mène l’enquête, et propose, dans son mensuel…
Annual report on Canadian broadcasting

The broadcasting industry is continuing to expand and new media are increasingly important to Canadians’ lives, said the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in its annual broadcasting report. Here are the report’s…
Blogosphere at 10

In an essay in the Toronto Star, David Eaves and Taylor Owen explore the impact of blogging, which they contend reaches its 10th anniversary this month. “Blogging continues to be misunderstood by…
Les journalistes-citoyens du site NowPublic veulent monter en puissance

24heures.ch Le site internet d’information NowPublic ambitionne de devenir, avec ses journalistes-citoyens, “la plus grosse agence de presse du monde” d’ici un an et demi, et a annoncé lundi un financement de…
Helicopter deaths: shame

The news that four people died when two U.S. news helicopters collided last week was stultifying; the deaths seemed too pointless to even mention here. Then I read Mark Hamilton’s blog post,…
“Citizen Journalist” site lands big financing deal

NowPublic Technologies Inc. calls itself the world’s largest participatory news network, with 100,000 non-professional contributing reporters from more than 140 countries and 3,600 cities, and a partnership with Associated Press. Today, the…
Black was overdone by media, suggests poll

As a reader, my eyes started glazing over every time there was another headline about Conrad Black, and I turned off the radio or TV when the news turned to him. I’d…