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Alice Munro’s winning of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has sparked the kind of nationalist chest-thumping that Canadian journalists usually reserve for gold medals or war anniversaries. The flag-waving didn’t start on Thursday though; it was preceded by a week of patriotic guesswork—maybe this would be our year, with a victory for Munro or… Continue reading Nailing the Nobel prediction, for once

The NHL didn’t make it two weeks before the first ginned-up controversy of the 2013-14 season. Earlier this week, San Jose Sharks rookie, Tomas Hertl, scored four goals against the New York Rangers; one was a show-offy, between-the-legs move. Two days later, TSN’s Farhan Lalji asked Sharks alternate captain, Patrick Marleau, if Hertl’s performance fit… Continue reading Is this thing on?

There are a lot of things us journalists (or anyone else, for that matter) can’t do on election day in Canada. We can’t broadcast the returns from any district until polls have closed in all districts (CBC accidentally flouted that one in 2011, after several people said they would intentionally do so). We can’t release… Continue reading Don’t vote then tweet

The Dallas Morning News – America’s 12th-biggest paper – woke up last week and realized, like Basil coming back to the hotel, that its wall was all wrong. After more than two years, The News announced that it was taking down its “hard” paywall, and replacing it with two versions of its site: a standard, free one,… Continue reading When is a premium site not a premium site?

Don’t throw us on the cart of dead people just yet—the RRJ blog is, in fact, alive and well. The 2013-14 masthead of the Review has found its sea legs, so starting next week, this space will get regular updates with posts about what’s going on in Canadian journalism. If there’s something you’d like to see us… Continue reading Area man resurrects blog