Archive
11 Jul

Sikh group attacks CBC

The World Sikh Organization has launched a lawsuit against Canada’s national broadcaster, a reporter and Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh, alleging that a CBC documentary examining the issue of Sikh extremism […]

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11 Jul

The future of hyperlocal news sites

Local news sites are a risky venture, as evidenced by the recent rise and fall of Backfence.com, but are they doomed to failure? Paul Farhi at the American Journal Review uses Backfence […]

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10 Jul

Pas de journaliste de Télé-Québec en Gaspésie

Claude Roy, Le Soleil(À Michèle Fortin, Télé-Québec) — La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, section Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine-Matane, réclame que Télé-Québec investisse de façon soutenue dans la production de reportages et […]

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9 Jul

Murdoch and the WSJ

Ken Auletta takes an in-depth look at the takeover attempt of the WSJ by Rupert Murdoch — which seems to be proceeding like a juggernaut — and how Murdoch keeps […]

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9 Jul

When the fourth estate fumbles

by Andrew Mitrovica “Hear No Evil, Write No Lies” might be the most provocative piece I have written. Why? While Canada is a big country, the nation’s media landscape is […]

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9 Jul

Iran cracks down on critical media

German news site Spiegel.com reports on actions taken by the Iranian government to combat its fear of a creeping media coup. Ham Mihan, a pro-reform newspaper, and the ILNA online news agency were both […]

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9 Jul

Inuit kids go cuckoo for Kaakuluk

Children were clamouring for copies of Kaakuluk — a glossy magazine published in both English and Inuktitut — when a small test run was released in June. Kaakuluk and its sister publication Pivuut […]

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9 Jul

An inside look at HuffPost

Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post examines the “blog that made it big”: “When Arianna Huffington launched her group blog in 2005, skeptics dismissed it as a vanity outlet for […]

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9 Jul

Osprey board OKs Quebecor bid

After Quebecor made a last-minute increase in its offer for Osprey shares, the Osprey board of trustees approved the bid, CanWest News Service reports. The new offer came after a […]

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9 Jul

Lancement du livre “50 ans de journalisme en Afrique”

Jeuneafrique.com Un ouvrage intitulé “50 ans de journalisme en Afrique: les médias africains depuis l’indépendance du Ghana” a été officiellement lancé dimanche soir à Accra, au Ghana, par le Forum […]

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