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10 Aug

More than five questions for Michael Hlinka

<p><em>We talk to <strong>Michael Hlinka</strong>, who reports on business issues of the day for CBC's Metro Morning, about the abysmal coverage of the latest installment of the U.S. debt crisis, political bias in business reporting, and the questions journalists are missing.</em></p>

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10 Aug

Policing the borders means policing Canadian journalism?

<p><em>Moments before Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney delivered an important speech, <a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2011/07/policing-borders-means-policing-canadian-journalism">Rabble</a> journalist <strong>David P. Ball</strong> was kicked out of the press conference -- despite having a press invite and the complimentary cookie they gave him in hand. This story originally appeared on <a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2011/07/policing-borders-means-policing-canadian-journalism">Rabble.ca.</a></em></p>

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10 Aug

Fanning the flames of intolerance

<p><em>In framing interim federal NDP leader Nycole Turmel's affiliation with the Bloc as a scandal, writes <strong>Nick Van der Graaf</strong>, The Globe and Mail revealed the dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics. This story was originally published in <a href="http://www.themarknews.com/articles/6294-fanning-the-flames-of-intolerance/">The Mark</a>, and a version of it also appeared on <a href="http://neodemokratia.ca/">Van der Graaf's blog</a>.</em></p>

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8 Aug

Former NHL-er Alex Kovalev takes shots at Ottawa hockey media

<p>Former Ottawa Senator hockey player Alex Kovalev may have moved on to a two-year contract with the KHL, but he's not done with Ottawa yet. Kovalev gave an interview with Pavel Lysenkov of <em>Sovetsky Sport</em> recently and  had plenty to say about Ottawa sports journalists.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/NHLer+Kovalev+trashes+former+Senators+coach+Clouston+Ottawa+hockey+media/5223057/story.html"><em>Ottawa Citizen </em>has a partial transcript posted online</a>, which is worth checking out. Here's a taste:</p>

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8 Aug

Steve Maich talks Sportsnet with Toronto Star

<p>So, will Canada's only general interest sports pub look like a Canuck <em>Sports Illustrated</em>, or <em>Maclean's</em> with sports? Neither, new <em>Sportsnet</em> editor Steve Maich tells the <em>Toronto Star </em>in a recent interview.<br /><br />The <em>Star</em>'s <a href="http://www.thestar.com/sports/2011/08/08/mudhar_getting_the_scoop_on_sportsnet_magazine.html">Raju Mudhar caught up with Maich</a> to get the scoop on Rogers' latest magazine venture, and Maich finally shed some light on what the new publication will look and read like:<br />

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5 Aug

How business journos use the internet and social media

<p>A whopping 98 per cent of business journalists use the internet to read news, according to a <a href="http://www.arketi.com/pdfs/Arketi_Web_Watch_2011.pdf">new U.S. study by Arketi</a>, a PR and marketing firm based in Atlanta. Maybe that's no big surprise. What about this: nearly as many also use it search for story sources and ideas.</p>

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5 Aug

Somalie: blackout médiatique sur l’enfer

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">L’état de famine a été décrété officiellement le 20 juillet dans deux provinces du sud de la Somalie, le sud de Bakool et le Lower Shabelle, mais les journalistes y sont traités en indésirables. La plupart des reportages qui parviennent aux Occidentaux arrivent donc des camps de réfugiés situés dans les pays limitrophes, en particulier le Kenya.</font></p>

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5 Aug

Journalist gets smackdown while taking photo; writes about it in Toronto Sun

<p>Freelance journalist David Menzies apparently got the smackdown from "a woman wearing a hijab" last weekend after she was captured in a photo he took at Younge-Dundas Square with his nine-year-old son. Being a journalist, Menzies <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/02/yonge-dundas-smackdown#disqus_thread">decided to write about it</a> -- in the <em>Toronto Sun</em>.<br /><br />Here is his detailing of the incident:<br />

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5 Aug

RTNDA appoints first digital news chair

<p>The Association of Electronic Journalists may be approaching its 50th anniversary, but the organization is anything but old-fashioned.<br /><br />Earlier this year, the Association <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/rtnda-changes-name">changed its name</a> to put emphasis on digital media. Now, it's chosen its first-ever digital chair, Andrew Lundy, Director of Globalnews.ca.<br /><a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2011/04/c9426.html">

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5 Aug

Taking stands on anonymity

<p>When the Ontario Superior Court dismissed former Aurora, Ont., mayor Phyllis Morris’s suit to identify anonymous commenters on a local political blog, it not only derailed the ex-mayor’s attempt to get $6 million in defamation damages out of the unidentified writers, but gave legal support to the idea that citizens should be able to express opinions anonymously.</p>

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