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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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Saturday, May 29
McGill looks at media influence on the 2004 Canadian federal election
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DavidAkin
on Sat 29 May 2004 11:26 PM EDT
Tom Popyk just posted this interesting tidbit up on the CAJ-List:
McGill University's Observatory on Media and Public Policy is tracking news coverage and bias [for the June 28, 2004 Canadian federal election]:
"Each day, a team of coders will scrutinize the main news sections of the Globe ... more »
Sad Day - Tom Mangan retires Print the Chaff
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DavidAkin
on Sat 29 May 2004 10:22 PM EDT
Tom Mangan is a copy editor (I think -- correct me if I'm wrong anyone who might know) at the San Jose Mercury News and ran one of the best blogs for folks who worked in a print newsroom. It was called "Print The Chaff" and it was funny, informative, ... more »
Credibility, Blogs, and How Newspapers Work
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DavidAkin
on Sat 29 May 2004 10:06 PM EDT
One of the problems with mining the Internet for sources and info, of course, is verifying the identify of authors of what looks like interesting material. Such is the case here with an alternatingly funny/cynical/misguided/spot-on blog entry by a fellow named Steve Gilliard. I have no idea what Gilliard is ... more »
Friday, May 28
Great line in a movie review
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DavidAkin
on Fri 28 May 2004 10:07 PM EDT
The New York Times > Movies > Movie Review | 'The Day After Tomorrow': Smart Hero. Dumb Officials. Huge Sheet of Ice.:
""The Day After Tomorrow" is rated Pg-13. Millions of people die, but nobody swears, copulates, undresses or takes drugs." more »
The Rebirth of the New York Review of Books
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DavidAkin
on Fri 28 May 2004 07:30 PM EDT
One of my favourite periodicals is the New York Review of Books. Scott Sherman has a piece that looks at the rebirth of this publication in a recent issue of The Nation. It's a good article and I didn't realize until I was reading Sherman's assessment of the NYRB that ... more »
Broadband beats the newsstand
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DavidAkin
on Fri 28 May 2004 12:17 PM EDT
The Heartland Institute (a U.S.-based education reform activist group, so far as I can tell) reports on a study, jointly authored by the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pew Foundation that looks at newspaper readership in the U.S. In Who Will Read Newspapers?. the Heartland Institute concludes that ... more »
Thursday, May 27
Springfield, the Map
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DavidAkin
on Thu 27 May 2004 01:03 PM EDT
Guide to Springfield USA is "A highly detailed map of the Simpsons' hometown" was put together by its creators by watching and re-watching all those Simpsons episodes. I'm a Simpsons fan. Millions of others are, too. This is a great way to kill an hour learning such esoterica as where ... more »
Blog searching
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DavidAkin
on Thu 27 May 2004 07:47 AM EDT
Librarian Christina Pikas has some advice for those who need to search blogs. "Blogs are everywhere," she writes, "and it is important to either be able to search them or to make sure you’re not searching them when you are looking for authoritative, accurate, and unbiased information. As blogs ... more »
Wednesday, May 26
Obsessive Compulsive Blogging
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 May 2004 10:53 PM EDT
The New York Times has a story tomorrow on more »
Canada is lone G8 offshore outsourcing destination
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 May 2004 10:16 PM EDT
Paul Kedrosky points to a new study which looks at the top destinations for offshore outsourcing. India is number one and Canada is ninth. From Kedrosky's blog:
Infectious Greed: Offshoring to Canada:
"Interestingly, there is only one G8 country in the list: Canada. I'm not convinced that is anything ... more »
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