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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Wednesday, December 3
Brock U lights up its Wi-Fi network
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 04:32 PM EST
I was at my alma mater, the University of
Guelph, earlier this week and checked the Wi-Fi network in McLaughlin
Library, the campus' main library. Shelves of books on that library's first
floor have given way to lots of comfoy chairs and a coffee shop. Library
users now access ... more »
Should journalists cover meaningless PR stunts?
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 03:09 PM EST
Jay Rosen offers up a tremendously interesting and thought-provoking essay
about meaningless PR stunts and whether or not we should cover them. You
might say, "Well, of course, we shouldn't cover meaningless PR stunts". But
what if that stunt was the President of the United States visiting U.S.
Troops in ... more »
How Newspapers can get their groove back
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 08:12 AM EST
The American Journalism Review
reports that in several surveys, newspapers prosper when they pay
attention to some pretty basic stuff:
New features for this blog
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DavidAkin
on Wed 03 Dec 2003 07:06 AM EST
The good folks who develop Blogware, the publishing system used for this blog, have added a couple of nifty new tools, one for me and one for you, dear reader. For me, I can post via e-mail and that's going to be much easier and should generate more posts. ... more »
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