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4 Oct

Global axes 200 jobs

Global television, part of the CanWest conglomerate, is laying off a total of 200 people, the company said Thursday. It’s part of the broadcaster’s plan to update the technology in […]

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4 Oct

Jena Six case: What’s fact?

The Jena Six case, involving nooses hung from trees and allegations of unequal justice for six young black students, has been national news in the United States for weeks. It spawned […]

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3 Oct

PM meets journalists!!!!!

“Stop the presses!” leads a Canadian Press story, uncharacteristically. An excerpt:Stephen Harper sat down for a news conference with the national media on Wednesday. The prime minister temporarily put aside […]

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3 Oct

Pour en finir avec la polémique Dallaire

François Bugingo, président de Reporters sans frontières Canada Le jeudi 27 septembre, j’étais l’invité de l’émission Christiane Charette pour commenter le film J’ai serré la main du diable, mettant en […]

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3 Oct

Mainstream journalist jumps to “blog”

Some time soon, I think, we’re all going to have to scrap the term “online” and agree on a new way to describe news presented on the Internet instead of […]

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3 Oct

Suicide coverage: the British way

I’ve encountered no more brutal assignments than those about suicide. Nobody seems to have found a way to entirely reconcile the gap between private grief and public information, and it’s […]

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3 Oct

Journalists on postage stamps

This week the U.S. will preview five stamps featuring 20th Century journalists. A press notice of an Oct. 5 press conference names them:  war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998); John Hersey […]

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3 Oct

Duceppe nie songer à son départ

Noée MurchisonLe Journal de Montréal03/10/2007 Gilles Duceppe a nié catégoriquement, hier, la nouvelle parue en première page de La Presse annonçant son départ prochain du Bloc québécois, qualifiant l’article de […]

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2 Oct

Record de plaintes

Brigitte McCann, Le Journal de Montréal Les plaintes concernant l’information à Radio-Canada ont fait un bond de 75% en à peine un an, selon le dernier rapport annuel du Bureau […]

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2 Oct

Renaud Gilbert déplore le mélange des genres

Brigite McCann, Le Journal de Montréal L’ombudsman sortant de Radio-Canada sonne l’alarme quant au mélange du divertissement et de l’information à la chaîne publique. Un mélange «risqué» qui peut, selon […]

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