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5 Apr

The Twitter campaign: what it means so far

Twitter may have existed during 2008’s campaign — the little birdie just turned five — but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is now. Indeed, as Kathleen Petty […]

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5 Apr

Cash for the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting

The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting has received a whopping $37,000 from the Montreal-based Chawkers Foundation. (Chawkers also funds The Walrus; the foundation was founded in 1988 by Ken Alexander’s […]

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5 Apr

Sun newspapers attacking CBC TV for “political bias” ahead of SunTV launch?

Simon Houpt says just weeks before the Sun is about to launch its own tv station, the newspaper is writing a number of critical articles about the CBC, accusing it […]

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4 Apr

Canadians won’t pay for news online: study

Surprise, surprise: Online pay walls may not be the stuff of publishers’ dreams, after all. At least, not in Canada. According to a recently released study by the Canadian Media […]

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4 Apr

Quand le peuple dicte l’info

Les propos de Luc Lavoie, architecte de Sun News, à notre micro, n’en finissent pas de faire sourciller. Le chroniqueur média du Devoir, Stéphane Baillargeon, y consacre ce matin une […]

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1 Apr

Toronto city staffers trash NOW’s near-nude Rob Ford issue

NOW magazine considers legal action: Updated  04/01 @ 5:35 p.m. It didn’t take long for Toronto city staffers to react after copies of NOW Magazine‘s March 31st edition, featuring a […]

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1 Apr

BCE completes CTV takeover; launches Bell Media

BCE Inc. closed its $3.2-billion acquisition of CTV on Friday, a full 90 days ahead of schedule. The communications giant has wasted no time releasing a new strategy, also announcing […]

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1 Apr

Gotcha!

Who says Canadians don’t have a sense of humour? It’s now after noon — the generally agreed-to expiry date for all April Fool’s pranks — in all of Canada. In […]

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1 Apr

CBC Ombudsman weighs in on decision to exclude May from leaders’ debate

CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe has added his voice to the Elizabeth May uproar. Although LaPointe has decided not to conduct a review into the Canadian broadcast consortium’s decision to exclude […]

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1 Apr

Le Buzz: la mission sociale des médias

Chaque vendredi, «le Buzz» revient sur les sujets qui ont attiré le plus votre attention sur notre site et notre fil Twitter au cours de la semaine. Au cours des […]

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