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28 Oct

Quebec forum for racists?

Are Quebec’s hearings on “reasonable accommodation” providing a platform for racist attitudes about immigrants and religious minorities? As news coverage of the hearings continues, a poll says most Quebecers approve […]

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28 Oct

Press gallery dinner

“It was enough to melt the heart of a cynical scribe: a standing ovation for two Conservative cabinet ministers – from the parliamentary press gallery,” leads John Ward of the […]

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28 Oct

Quebec conference on media and public democratic interest

Unionized Quebec journalists will host a conference next February, headed by Joan Fraser, on whether media is still serving the public interest. Fraser knows about this issue first hand. She […]

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27 Oct

A Cautionary Tale for Old Media

In 1990, four years before the first web browser was released, the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the […]

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26 Oct

Krugman, according to Alternet

Alternet has an interview with Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. The leader says it’s about how Krugman thinks “the right-wing media machine is destroying social progress.” […]

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26 Oct

The Irvings and the courts

A New Brunswick judge extended an injunction against a man trying to start up a community newspaper in New Brunswick, who is accused of stealing corporate secrets from the Irvings, […]

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26 Oct

Kill the messenger!

Al-Jazeera’s journalists have suffered bombings, expulsions, censorship, threats, beatings, routine jailings and controversial incarceration by U.S. forces. Now, says an Associated Press report, “Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of […]

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26 Oct

Toronto Star series wins online journalism award

Congratulations to Toronto Star reporter Jim Rankin, who along with a team at the paper, won the Online Journalism Award for service journalism. The award was presented at the Online […]

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26 Oct

Multimedia reports of CJF events

The Canadian Journalism Foundation has posted multimedia reports of their two most recent events: the sold-out October 17 panel discussion “Charitable Sector and the Media: Accountability and Reporting” and the October […]

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26 Oct

FEMA workers play reporters

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, criticized for its response after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, was treated more gently at a hastily called news conference to talk about its […]

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