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Newspapers discover internet when 12 year old raped

Ottawa citizen actually posted the link to another newspaper in story about rape in Calgary

Calgary rape Newspapers discover internet when 12 year old raped photo

An ambulance attendant loads a patient at a playing field adjacent to Clarence Sansom Junior High, on 24th Avenue N.E. in the community of Pineridge. A girl as young as 12 was attacked, and possibly raped, in the northeast schoolyard just before the supper hour Monday as a group of youths looked on and took photos. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Police+seize+cellphones+interview+drunk+teens+after+schoolyard+assault/3487713/story.html#ixzz0yritlkqi Photograph by: Courtesy, Global TV

It was a pretty ghastly story in the Ottawa Citizen. Some teenage boys in Calgary allegedly raped a 12 year old girl in the school yard while other children looked on and took photographs with their cellphones.

Police have detained one boy who appeared to be the perpetrator and seized cell phones from others. They may contain videos or pictures which could be evidence.

Alcohol was involved.  A mother in a nearby home witnessed the whole incident unsure what was happening and then horrified when she realized the young girl was being sexually attacked.

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The Ottawa Citizen was covering the story from the Calgary Herald. In an unprecedented move for a newspaper, the Citizen printed the link back to other paper.

Picture caption is exactly as shown in the Ottawa Citizen

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Could a ‘mini-paper’ nip at the heels of mainstream press?

This fifth article suggests a few ways in which independent print news media projects could be set up in Canada

Nick Fillmore1 Could a mini paper nip at the heels of mainstream press? photo

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The sixth article will explore how independent Internet-based media could be developed. The seventh and final article will explore fundraising opportunities for independent media projects. We hope that this series of articles will encourage public-minded groups to look into setting up new media projects in their cities, towns, or regions. Interested groups and individuals are invited to send us their comments and questions: fillmore0274@rogers.com  Continue reading →

The Fall and Rise of Media

Pages are down, spending is down, revenues are down, and the biggest feature of this holiday season in the media kingdom has been layoffs and buyouts

By DAVID CARR New York Times

Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their way to Manhattan. Once there, they were told, they would work in marginal jobs for indifferent bosses doing mundane tasks and then one day, if they did all of that without whimper or complaint, they would magically be granted access to a gilded community, the large heaving engine of books, magazines and newspapers.

Somewhere … cabals of bright young things are watching all the disruption with more than an academic interest. Their tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago. And they are ginning content from their audiences in the form of social media or finding ways of making ambient information more useful. They are jaded in the way youth requires, but have the confidence that is a gift of their age as well. Read the whole story on the New York Times