In his Slate column, Jack Shafer questions whether author Alex S. Jones has proved his assertion that the death of old-line media will have ramifications for U.S. democracy.

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Daniel Lyons argues for death before bailout for American newspapers, saying it would clear the deck for more able competitors to start delivering news.

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Graeme Smith is currently on leave from The Globe and Mail to write a book and finish his journalism degree, but he took time to speak with CBC Radio's The Current about embedding and reportage in Afghanistan.

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Mondoville promises to offer a Toronto-centric mix of media, business, technology entertainment and culture news.

There will original reporting and commentary by snark-about-town Marc Weisblott (@scroll on Twitter). The web producer is Geo Perdis (@geoperdis).

I would comment more tonight, but I am bagged.

Jerry Mitchell, a reporter for the Jackson, Miss. Clarion-Ledger, has made it his life's work to investigate crimes carried out by white supremacists during the fight for civil rights in the U.S. South of almost half a century ago.

The MacArthur Foundation has given him a genius grant to fund his efforts.

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Much kerfuffle on Twitter on Sunday about the release of new social media guidelines produced by the Washington Post for its editorial staff.

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Jim Brady, former executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, now consulting editor with Guardian America, talked with Columbia Journalism Review about the U.S. j-biz.

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What is curation, you might ask? Well, it's what I've been doing here for more than five years -- collecting bits and pieces of information on the Web and archiving them for your perusal and pleasure.

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Globe and Mail columnist Lisan Jutras had a piece tonight on how Twitter can be a monster timewaster, once you start following specific links.

Here's a snippet:

In the end, I followed up on 44 links between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. In total, this equalled three hours of power reading. Considering that your standard city dweller gets crazy waiting 10 minutes for public transit, and sometimes doesn't even have time for breakfast (a meal that comes in a box ), this is a massive chunk of the day. Or, to put it in another perspective, the average American spends a mere 45 minutes a month – a month, people! – on newspaper websites.

Jutras is being billed as the Globe's "Sociable" columnist. Once upon a time, Ivor Tossell had been writing on new media issues in the G&M's 7 Days sections on Friday, but that ended. He's now writing a column under the theme of "Viral."

Where sociable starts and viral ends, I'm not quite sure.

The Nieman Laboratory has transcribed a talk by Internet thinker Clay Shirky that he delivered to Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy earlier this week.

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A wealthy fellow in San Francisco is going to provide US$5 million for a non-profit local news Web site designed to fill in the gaps left by the grievous economic wounds suffered by local newspapers.

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If you want a sneak peak at at the CTV.ca of tomorrow, go to http://beta.ctvdigital.net/.

Here's the new CTV.ca News home page: http://beta.ctvdigital.net/news/

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Social media and communications maven Ian Capstick is interviewing some journalists:

Journalists Who Blog is a series where journalists who report daily in Canada’s mainstream media talk about how the participatory web is changing their craft.  Each of these writers have mastered the art of capturing what happened today and reporting online and for an audience tomorrow.I asked blogging journalists three questions about their craft and the evolution of reporting as the industry of news changes

Today, he published the results of his email interview with me.

On Tuesday, he published a similar interview with the Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt.