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DigitalJournal.com is an alternative news network for people who want
to read news, contribute to reporting, debate and discuss news and
events from around the world. Made up of professional journalists,
citizen journalists, bloggers, passionate writers and regular Joes
and Janes, DigitalJournal.com covers news and issues of the day. Contributors
in 140 countries around the world are known as "Digital Journalists"
and they work 24-7 to offer news from multiple perspectives, while
special attention is placed on quality and accuracy.
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offers current headlines
Today's top stories in Canada and
the world
- incl.
current headlines from CBC
- "Surfing for Information and Journalism Resources"
Version
2009 (January 2009) online here since 1994
By Dean Tudor (Emeritus Professor,
School of Journalism, Ryerson University, Toronto)
===>800+ links
(Financial Post, The Sun, Maclean's, etc.)
Extensive list - by province and territory
- of dailies, weeklies, underground papers, university papers, and more...
- incl. Internet addresses, e-mail addresses, street addresses,
fax and phone numbers
- incredible list from every country in the world - you
can browse Canadian newspapers by province
(5,000 contacts, 1,000 organizations, 12,000 subjects)
(Canadian newswires and newspapers)
Source:
(formerly Canada Newswire)
CNW Group is
the nation’s number one resource for time-critical news and information from
more than 10,000 sources coast to coast and around the world. Public companies,
associations, unions, not-for-profits, municipal, provincial and federal governments
all rely on CNW Group’s unique multi-media communication services and networks
to effectively send their messages to newsrooms, the financial community and the
public
Médias
francophones
- La Presse - Le Soleil - Le Droit - La Tribune - Le Nouvelliste - La Voix de
l'Est - Quotidien
- today's headlines + a humungous list of links to media
sites
- International News, Opinions.
Features, Culture and Lifestyle
"Embassy is an unbiased and authoritative
newsweekly focused on international affairs from a distinctively Canadian point
of view and on the diplomatic community in Ottawa. Embassy gives its influential
and prestigious readers breaking and informed news, society and cultural coverage
and policy briefings to help make their work in Canada better informed and more
effective."
[ Version française : ]
- incredible multimedia collection of historical
sound and video clips, (the Politics and Economy section even includes the 1971
Trudeau "fuddle-duddle" incident!)
- on this site, you can find links
to literally hundreds of of historically significant sound and video clips organized
under the following headings: People - Conflict and War - Arts & Entertainment
- Politics and Economy - Life and Society - Disasters and Tragedies - Science
and Technology - Sports
Two samples:
For more information on these two excellent multimedia
presentations, go to the Canadian Social Research Links Medicare
Debate Links page.
April 2004
The Standing Senate
Committee on Transport and Communications examines and reports on "the current
state of Canadian media industries; emerging trends and developments in these
industries; the media's role, rights, and responsibilities in Canadian society;
and current and appropriate future policies relating thereto."
Source:
(February 2, 2004 - May 23, 2004)
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"We
are an independent, socially active, and nationally representative web magazine,
that gives activists, organizations, and socially conscious media producers a
forum for watching, listening, reading, and interacting with the issues that Canadians
are dealing with, that may not have representation in the mainstream media. Our
mission is to give a place for the voices of those that are less heard, or ignored,
who do not have the chance to represent themselves in the media. CitizenSHIFT
is a valuable tool for organizations and individuals to have their issues talked
about, and utilizing all the forums that multimedia interaction can offer.
Our content is dictated by the submissions that we receive, but there are often
shared themes between groups and media makers. Currently we are showcasing different
activist artists’ work and perspectives on poverty and homelessness
in the different chapters of the web magazine. In the chapter, REEL COMMUNITY
– the film and its filmmakers of “Hide and Go Homeless” are featured,
telling their rigorous journey to get their film finished against all odds. In
REBELS WITH A CAUSE – CitzenSHIFT features Craig Chivers, a photosensitive
artist whose activism through photography is showcased, along with interviews
with Craig."
Source:
"Reporters Without Borders is an association officially
recognised as serving the public interest. More than a third of the world’s
people live in countries where there is no press freedom. Reporters Without Borders
works constantly to restore their right to be informed. Fourty-two media professionals
lost their lives in 2003 for doing what they were paid to do — keeping us
informed. Today, more than 130 journalists around the world are in prison simply
for doing their job..."
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incl. late-breaking news, search, etc. - great resource!!
TIP: is a great new service --- you give them your e-mail address and
some key words, and you receive a daily e-mail from Google with links to articles
(usually 4-5) that match your keywords. I subscribed using "Canada, welfare".
You can subscribe as many times as the number of topics you want to monitor in
the media.
Try it - you'll like it!
"(...)The purpose of BlogsCanada is to provide helpful
information for bloggers and those interested in blogs and
blogging. BlogsCanada includes Officially Unofficial, Jim
Elve's blog. Officially Unofficial covers topics related to
blogging, in general, and BlogsCanada, in particular..."
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- 10,000+ Blogs in over two dozen categories
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is a collection of
political blogs by Canadians. Unlike other blog groups this
site is not branded under one party; instead it encompasses
bloggers from all political views into different channels.
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"Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers
who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward,
not backwards. (...) On these blogs,
you will read about the importance of the environment, the
need to preserve Canada’s social programs and its multicultural
mosaic. You’ll see posts on why national unity is important
and on why there are worse problems than letting two people
who love each other marry. (...) If you enjoy reading progressive
blogs, then you’ve come to the right place."
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(news about Northern Canada)
rabble.ca is a project of the . This interactive magazine captures the
spirit of a growing democracy movement. rabble.ca combines the hot energy of activism
with the cool eye of journalism.
- Canada's consumer and news watchdog
"Straight Goods
is a watchdog working for Canadian consumers and citizens. The purpose of Straight
Goods is to help you save money, protect your rights and untangle spin with investigative
reports, features, forums, archives, and links to many others who share our values."
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Straight
Goods is a subscription-based online magazine with a decidedly left slant on current
events and social issues. Current site content is free, but you must be a subscriber
to access most of the older material. If you can afford the $30/yr. subscription
fee ($10/yr. for low-income subscribers), this is an excellent resource with an
enormous archive of information.
Over 900 links to sites organized by category,
e.g., Aboriginal/Indigenous/First Nations, Environment, Gender issues, Health,
Journalism resources, Labour issues, Media, Politics, Research and analysis, Social
action, Unions and more...
Recommended resource!
The mission of Vive le Canada is to involve Canadians in
grassroots efforts to protect and improve Canadian sovereignties and democracy
in the era of corporate globalization and U.S. empire, especially using existing
and emerging communications tools.
"Indymedia
is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists
offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet
for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."
U.S. -
International
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- U.S.
[NOTE: this link is continously updated; its content
changes several times a week.]
- links to news items from the American
press about poverty, homelessness, welfare reform, child welfare, education, health,
hunger, Medicare and Medicaid, etc.
- links to two dispatches a week back to June 2006
Source:
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"a collaborative project to produce
a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations
and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public
policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Sponsored
by the Center for Media and Democracy (),
the Disinfopedia was started in February 2003 and contributors are now working
on 6211 articles.
"Inter Press Service
News Agency (IPS), the world's leading provider of information on global issues,
is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries. Its clients
include more than 3,000 media organizations and tens of thousands of civil society
groups, academics, and other users. IPS focuses
its news coverage on the events and global processes affecting the economic, social
and political development of peoples and nations."
NewsLink Associates () is an
academic and professional research and consulting firm studying electronic publishing
and visual journalism.
- incl. links to thousands
of sites around the world organized under the following headings : Top sites -
Newspapers - Magazines - Radio/TV - Resources. Links to more than 17,200 newspapers and other news sources
from around the world.
- U.S., Canadian, International - thousands of links to newspapers!
- when ya need a break from it all, go here...
Biting 'murcan
satire.
Example:
- Ditto - but Canajun...
, eh.
Extensive collection - over 600 links to credible
sources of information on every conceivable disaster, from anthrax to winter storms.
Includes links to international disaster organizations, relief agencies, airplane
disasters, severe weather - even space weather - and much more...
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