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Freelancer Introductions: The Challenge of "Who Do Your Write For?"

By: Lucinda Gunnin

Negotiating A Freelance Contract: Getting the Best Deal as a Newspaper Correspondent

By: Lucinda Gunnin

Becoming a Newspaper Freelancer: How to Find Work as a Correspondent with the Local Newspaper

By: Lucinda Gunnin

Roll Call: The Washington Insider: The Small Congressional Paper Broke the Senator Larry Craig Story

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

United Press International History: UPI Gives Up White House Correspondent After 100 Years

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

American Media News Coverage: Michael Vick Story Showed Difference in Coverage and Public Interest

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

Media Coverage of Katrina in 2005: 2 Years Since Storm Devastated New Orleans & Media Swooped In

By: Kate Butler

Lack of News Stories in Summer: Mainstream Media Does Not Cover Serious News When Weather is Hot

By: Kate Butler

Presidential Campaign Gets Longer: Republicans in South Carolina Move Primary to January

By: Kate Butler

Media Spectacle & Media Milestones: Incessant Mainstream Coverage of Baseball Breakthroughs

By: Kate Butler

An Online Presidential Debate: Voters Will Benefit From Interactive Format of Internet Debating

By: Kate Butler

Media Portrait- Marshall McLuhan: How Making the Medium the Message Changed the World Forever

By: Kate Butler

BBC’s Royal Mistake Over Portrait: British Public Broadcaster Apologizes To Queen Elizabeth II

By: Kate Butler

Presidential Hopefuls Launch Ads: 2008 Candidates Air You Tube Videos Aimed At Young Voters

By: Kate Butler

Canadian Identity on July 1: Our Nation’s Birthday is a Time to Think About our Cultural Identity

By: Kate Butler

CBC's Facebook Experiment: Attempt By Public Broadcaster To Attract Youth Generates Controversy

By: Kate Butler

Dangers of Murdoch, WSJ Merger: Why the Wall Street Journal Will Lose if News Corp Takes Over

By: Kate Butler

Importance of Wall Street Journal: Why the WSJ Matters in the World of the Mainstream Media

By: Kate Butler

Murdoch and His Influence on Media: Australian Journalism Mogul Has Made An International Splash

By: Kate Butler

Tony Blair and the British Media: Blair's Popularity & Unpopularity Have Been Well Covered by Media

By: Kate Butler

Celebrating Moms in the Media: Mainstream Media Coverage of Mother's Day Leaves Much to be Desired

By: Kate Butler

Mormonism and the White House: Mitt Romney's Bid for President and his Mormon Faith

By: Kate Butler

Controversial NBC Choice on Video: Virginia Tech Murderer's Manifesto Provided Tough Decision for Media

By: Kate Butler

Belinda Stronach Leaves Politics: Mainstream Media Will Miss Covering Stronach's Every Action

By: Kate Butler

Virginia Massacre Media Frenzy: Inappropriate mainstream media coverage of tragedy at Virginia Tech

By: Kate Butler

Media Controversy Over Imus Remark: Don Imus deserved to be fired, but media storm goes too far

By: Kate Butler

Online Encyclopedia Improvements: Wikipedia founder launches a better version of his creation

By: Kate Butler

The Continued Success of Magazines: Internet predominance has not made magazines obsolete

By: Kate Butler

Celebrity Opinion-Editorials: Newspapers use op-ed format to highlight guest celebrity writers

By: Kate Butler

Homosexuality in the Media: Mainstream journalism coverage of sexual orientation

By: Kate Butler

Anti-Poverty Activism in the News: Mainstream media coverage of anti-poverty activism

By: Kate Butler

Racial nature of poverty news: Mainstream news skews minority poverty figures

By: Kate Butler

Poor Women in the News: Portrayals of poor women in the media are inherently skewed

By: Kate Butler

Portraying Poverty in the News: Media outlets represent the poor as essentially different

By: Kate Butler

The Media in the Pickton Case: Sensational murder trial of accused serial killer starts in B.C. with intense media presence

By: Kate Butler

Loss of Labour: Today’s media outlets rarely cover union or labour news

By: Kate Butler

Looking Ahead to 2007: Expectations for the Upcoming Year

By: Kate Butler

Looking Back at 2006: Biggest media trends of the past year

By: Kate Butler

Lists Galore for Mainstream Media: This is the time of year that year-in-review lists are on the cover of every magazine and newspaper

By: Kate Butler

Charity Time for Mainstream Media: The mainstream media promotes non-profits during the holiday season but not all year

By: Kate Butler

Liberal Leadership Race: Mainstream media coverage of Liberal convention in Montreal

By: Kate Butler

Quebec as a Nation: Media's role in legitimizing debate on status of Quebec in Canada

By: Kate Butler

The Role of the News Anchor: Losing three major news anchors has affected how this role is seen by networks, as well as the public

By: Kate Butler

Media Influence on Election Day: How the mass media plays a role in the voting process

By: Kate Butler

American Mid-Term Elections: The Role the Media Has Played in the 2006 U.S. Elections

By: Kate Butler

Talking to Columnists: How online discussion forums are changing the form of the newspaper

By: Kate Butler

A Prevalence of Polling: Why Political Polls are so Popular with the Mainstream Media

By: Kate Butler

Covering the North Korean Nuclear: How Mainstream Media Coverage of North Korea’s Nuclear Test Missed the Mark

By: Kate Butler

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