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First up: Down to zero Metro Toronto, the biggest commuter paper in the country, has the smallest number of reporters. None, actually. How can no news gatherers be good news? After Metro whacked its four staff writers, it went with (unpaid) interns and freelancers. Observe this snippet: Raf Brusilow, a Toronto-based freelancer who’s been writing [...]
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NYT media columnist David Carr says Twitter has not turned his brain to mush. Far from it. Carr calls Twitter a gushing river of information into which he's learned to dip his cup as needed. From the NYT: I’m in narrative on more things in a given moment than I ever thought possible, and instead [...]
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A Somalia-born man has been charged with attempted murder following an attack on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard of Jyllands Posten newspaper, whose life will never be the same after he drew a cartoon of Allah with a bomb in his turban. From the NYT: Among the few details about the assailant given by the police [...]
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