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5 Dec

TorStar buys immigrant magazine

The Star Media Group has purchased The Canadian Immigrant Magazine, a monthly magazine published out of Vancouver. Star Media Group is a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., which is […]

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5 Dec

Wall Street Journal Shrinks

The Wall Street Journal is cutting back its newsroom, including closing its Canadian bureaus. The paper layed off four full time reporters and two part-timers in Canada. The move comes […]

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4 Dec

New national photojournalism awards competition

Canada’s news photographers associations are merging to form a national organization, and with it comes a new national photojournalism awards competition. A news release posted at the Canadian Journalist blog […]

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4 Dec

Gannett goes hyper local on the Web

Gannett newspapers are trying a radical experiment, equipping reporters with the latest technology and focusing on the web first and the newspaper second. Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post examines […]

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1 Dec

CBC to replace Canada Now with multi-platform news

Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias reports about CBC-TV’s plans to revamp its delivery of early evening news to integrate TV, radio and web resources. But first she passes along some […]

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1 Dec

WSJ closing Canadian bureaus

The Wall Street Journal is closing all of its Canadian bureaus — in Montreal, Toronto and Calgary, the Globe and Mail reports. Maclean’s followed up with a broader story about […]

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30 Nov

Cheating culture

Ryerson University journalism professor Ivor Shapiro reviews, for the Canadian Journal of Communication, four books about recent scandals at newspapers and magazines: The Fabulist: A Novel by Stephen Glass, Burning […]

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30 Nov

Attempt to get access to writer’s material opposed

Two organizations are protesting a Crown attempt to get access to the research a writer compiled in writing a book about a Toronto murder case, the Globe and Mail reports. […]

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30 Nov

Ottawa press gallery in “tatters”

In a recent article for rabble.ca, veteran CBC journalist Ira Basen declares Prime Minister Stephen Harper victorious in taking down the Ottawa press gallery. Since Harper took office last February, […]

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30 Nov

Journos interviewing fake journo

Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein begs the question: “Why are journalists interviewing Sacha Baron Cohen’s alter ego as if he were actually real?” Stein says reputable news outlets such […]

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