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Blogs, and particularly newsblogs, are receiving increased attention for their role in uncovering important or underdeveloped aspects of news stories. This research was an attempt to explore relevance criteria as it applies to users of newsblogs.An anonymous online questionnaire presented individuals with a list of established user relevance criteria, ranking the importance of each characteristic in determining a newsblog's quality.

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This study reports on the Canadian data from a recent international content analysis of broadcast news in 18 countries. With a mind to Robert A. Hackett’s longitudinal analysis of foreign news on CBC and CTV in 1989, the current study addresses questions of foreign news prominence, geographic distribution, topic coverage, and variation between networks, noting differences and similarities in the content of foreign news in light of shifting cultural, political, and economic environments; news production processes; and communication technologies. This analysis provides an update to Hackett’s seminal work, painting a picture of the Canadian foreign news landscape two decades later.