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Why Canadian Press is now using Storify

For Toronto hockey fans, Jan. 9 was a big news day: the firing of Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke was completely unexpected. Also unexpected was how Canadian Press, the country’s wire...

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The Atlantic’s Scientology advertorial proves audience is awake

Screengrab from the Atlantic’s Scientology advertorial I suppose it seemed like a good idea to the folks in advertising at the time: The Atlantic receives a sum of money to write a glowing piece on...

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Audio reporting tools of the trade: then and now

Note the 3-metre cord on the microphone, which was designed for karaoke. I wound it up and held extra cord together with a hair elastic. Very technical. This is an I-love-technology piece, gird...

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Out of disruption, comes media innovation

Quit your job in a traditional newsroom, and go it alone to innovate in journalism … or work within existing newsrooms, which have the most money to try new things. These were the two messages that...

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Leonard Asper speaks about the demise of Canwest

Leonard Asper, left, speaks to the Winnipeg Free Press’ Geoff Kirbyson. A funny thing happened during my Michener-Deacon research in Manitoba. Leonard Asper, CEO of failed Canwest stopped by the...

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Simple graphic of platform differentiation: how readers’ news needs vary by...

I’ve been hearing a lot about platform strategy in the news business lately, and I think before we create a strategy, we need to look at how  people are using these devices to consume news – including...

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Boston Marathon bombing coverage by CNN and John King

On Wednesday, CNN’s John King reported that a ‘dark-skinned male’ had been indentified, then arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. But over the next 90 minutes, King’s credibility –...

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Time for an NNA upgrade

For the record, this is not what the NNA looks like. It’s a framed plaque. Gird yourself, I’m about to attack a Canadian journalism institution: The National Newspaper Awards. It has taken me a couple...

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Newsana: Who do you trust to tell you what’s important?

Trust is what many traditional news organizations use to promote their relevance, stating they are a trusted brand to cut through the noise. The pitch goes something like this: ‘We are a trusted brand,...

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When journalists don’t know math: Exhibit A

A while ago, I wrote about the importance of knowing simple arithmetic, how I taught math in a second-year fundamentals of reporting course at Carleton University’s journalism school. In that blog...

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How to ‘wow’ during a newsroom internship interview

You don’t have to feel like this (Photo credit: Arroz y Asado) Recently I was contacted by a candidate who had been short-listed for the Ottawa Citizen’s year-long internship opportunities. (Note: all...

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8 great reads on Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post

Photo by flickr user vpickering Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has bought the Washington Post for a cool $250 million. In his letter to Post employees,...

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Multimedia journalism is like sex in junior high: Garcia

Photo from Garcia’s wikipedia page Media consultant Mario Garcia was at the Ottawa Citizen today to share his thoughts on a new wave in storytelling, in which four platforms (mobile, tablet, web and...

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Ingram: What journalists must do when information is everywhere

Photo by Flikr user LittleRae Journalists need to embrace their changing role as a trusted curator and aggregator of news, Mathew Ingram said at a recent Third Tuesday event in Ottawa. Ingram said the...

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Great multimedia journalism of 2013

We’ve come a long way since Snowfall, baby. The New York Times’ massive multimedia project went live in December, 2012 and set the tone for an amazing 12 months of online journalism. Yes, I know, we’re...

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Now this is a cool story form experiment

The BBC conducted an interesting experiment in story form yesterday:  A quick video report it labelled the #Instafax on its Instagram account. This is smart in many ways, but mostly because it’s using...

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How to cultivate journalistaphobia

Really, we’re friendly – and just calling with a few questions…. Any journalist who has tried to contact a federal government researcher/scientist/source  can tell you how frustrating an exercise it...

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We need to keep experimenting in journalism

This photo from the high school science class I really wish I’d taken. Any good scientist will tell you that not all experiments succeed, but it’s important to keep at it. It’s sad to hear that Digital...

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