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The importance of multimedia journalists, according to one
It is no secret that the world of news reporting is changing form rapidly thanks to the Internet. For one of the Edmonton Journal’s web editors, Stuart Thomson, this makes his job exciting. “I think the best part about my job is there is no normal day,” he said over the phone from his desk…
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Media not inoculating anti-vaxers’ fears
Dr. Paul Offit has spent his career researching and advocating for vaccine safety. As director of the Vaccine Education Centre at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he sees at least one child die every year of a vaccine-preventable disease. “At the heart of it is people don’t fear the disease,” Offit said. “As a consequence,…