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15 Feb

The real Twitter revolution: Changing coverage on the ground in Egypt

By Wilf DinnickOpenFile For the first time since leaving my ‘on camera’ job as a foreign correspondent more than two years ago, I thought I might be envious watching my […]

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15 Feb

Why Is The Tyee in the Vancouver Art Gallery?

Fiesty British Columbia online publication The Tyee was selected to be part of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s ‘WE: Vancouver’ exhibit. Tyee editor David Beers reports. The Tyee is pleased to […]

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15 Feb

CRTC grants campus radio station temporary stay

The CRTC has granted campus radio station CKLN an emergency stay, allowing it to stay on-air until at least April. Earlier this month the CRTC revoked the station’s licence for […]

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15 Feb

Broadcaster Jim Reed dies

Veteran broadcaster Jim Reed has died from lung cancer at the age of 75. Reed has worked as a writer, producer, director, reporter and news anchor for CTV, TVO and […]

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15 Feb

CBC requests public input on 5-year strategy

The CBC revealed its new five-year strategy this month, and is now asking for the public to respond. “Our strategy is ultimately about deepening our relationship with Canadians on every […]

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14 Feb

How not to file freedom of information requests

In researching a story about a devastaing fire in a Toronto apartment building, OpenFile Toronto‘s Stephen Spencer Davis learned a few things about filing Freedom of Information requests. The hard […]

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14 Feb

Crise au CRTC: une tempête dans un verre d’eau

Le bureau du Premier ministre a-t-il demandé à l’ancien vice-président du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC), Michel Arpin, de conseiller son successeur, Tom Pentefountas? «Pas du […]

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14 Feb

Charles Foran’s Mordecai wins Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction

Author Charles Foran has been awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction — and the $25,000 prize that comes with it — for his biography Mordecai: The Life and […]

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14 Feb

Les journalistes sont-ils trop branchés?

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">La majorité des Québécois jugent que les médias accordent une juste couverture aux réseaux sociaux, tels que Twitter, Facebook et YouTube, selon un sondage mené par Léger Marketing pour l'association Hebdo Québec.</p>

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14 Feb

Akin to Levant: media didn’t miss the story in Cairo

Blogger Ezra Levant thinks that mainstream media was too busy navel-gazing to pay attention to more important stories coming out of Cairo. “As always, this revolution was about them — […]

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