Archive
6 Dec

CMAJ gets new editor

An Ottawa-based physician and author has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), the leading peer-reviewed medical journal in Canada. Dr. Paul Hebert, a critical […]

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6 Dec

<i>Maclean’s</i>, one year later

In hisGlobe and Mail review,James Adams examines the state of Maclean‘s magazine one year after Kenneth Whyte took over as editor and publisher. Adamsdoes some number crunching on the weekly […]

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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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