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24 Nov

UK media trade mag closes after 41 years

The Press Gazette, a magazine out of Britain that reports on journalism and the media, has closed after 41 years. According to Wikipedia, co-owner Matthew Freud claimed the decision to […]

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23 Nov

Canadian Federation of Students says no to reporters

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) has banned reporters from attending their semi-annual general meeting. The CFS, which represents almost half a million students across the country,has blocked student reporters […]

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22 Nov

The Media, the Military and the Pollsters: WhoÄôs got the story on Afghanistan?

TOM HANSON/CANADIAN PRESS Pallbearers carry the casket of Sgt. Darcy Tedford at his interment. With rising death tolls escalating Canadians’ worries over Afghanistan,Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie, Lisa LaFlamme, John Wright and […]

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21 Nov

The fight for their lives: A reporters account

by Aaron Derfel In the days following the shooting rampage at Dawson College, I was sent by The Gazette to the Montreal General Hospital to report on how the gunshot […]

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21 Nov

Journalists and the law

This section contains information, advice and commentary on legal issues that affect how journalists do their jobs.

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21 Nov

Aboriginal editor named one of Globe’s Top 100 Women

Linda Powless, a 50-year-old Mohawk from the Six Nations reserve west of Hamilton, has been named one of the Globe and Mail‘s Top 100 Women. Powless is thepublisher and editor […]

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20 Nov

National Magazine Awards call for submissions

One sure sign of winter is the launch of the journalism awards season. This year’s call for NMA submissions opens Dec. 1, 2006 and ends Jan. 10, 2007. The submission […]

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17 Nov

Helen Allen dies

Veteran journalist Helen Allen, who became best known for her column Today’s Child, has died, the Toronto Star reports.

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17 Nov

<i>Reader’s Digest</i> sold for $1.6 billion

The Globe and Mail‘s Keith McArthur puts some faces and context to the whopping numbers behind the sale of the world’s best read magazine brand.

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16 Nov

FactCheck.org: monitoring U.S. politics

Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

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