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9 Dec

After 70 years, Brenda Starr leaves news beat

The redheaded star of long-running comic strip “Brenda Starr, Reporter” will file her last story on Jan. 2. The news follows the departure of another redheaded comic star, Little Orphan […]

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9 Dec

Asper back in the media biz

Leonard Asper left the media industry nine months ago during the long decline of Canwest Global Communications Corp. He’s back now after purchasing a 30% stake in specialty channel The […]

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8 Dec

Does compassion have a down side?

An article on the class website of the Journalism Program at the University of Miami makes what, at first blush, seems like an obvious point: Journalists who cover traumatic events–fires, […]

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8 Dec

Wikileaks: la guerre de l’info est en cours

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;">La saga Wikileaks a atteint un nouveau palier de tension alors que son principal protagoniste, l'énigmatique Julian Assange, entame sa seconde nuit en prison en Grande-Bretagne. Depuis que le site a bouleversé les règles du secret-défense en déclenchant le «cablegate», il suscite un discours belliqueux autant de la part de ses partisans que de ses opposants.</p>

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8 Dec

Magazines BC elects new team

Magazines BC has elected four new people to its executive slate, including TV Week‘s managing editor Kim Mah, who is now also the regional association’s president. Three other recently-vacated positions […]

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8 Dec

Meet The Canadian Press’s new owners

Three of Canada’s largest media companies will take over The Canadian Press, a move the CBC says “will complete the 93-year-old news agency’s transformation from newspaper co-operative to for-profit corporation.” […]

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7 Dec

Éthique: Dupont le midi de CHOI-FM blâmé

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le Conseil canadien des normes de la radiotélévision (CCNR) juge que divers épisodes de l'émission Dupont le midi, diffusés sur les ondes de CHOI-FM (Radio X, 98,1FM, Québec), ont violé les normes de la radiodiffusion. L'organisme juge que les coanimateurs ont diffusé des informations inexactes sur l’assistance sociale et des représentations indûment négatives des Haïtiens.</p>

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7 Dec

Talk radio show violated broadcast standards: CBSC

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) released three decisions about Quebecois weekday talk radio show Dupont le midi. The CBSC received numerous complaints from 2008-2010 about a range of issues, […]

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7 Dec

Canadian self-censorship vs fearless Indian journalism

Fresh from a trip to India, Howard Bernstein writes about the fearlessness of Indian TV and why Canadian media has lost its mojo. On his blog, Medium Close Up, Bernstein […]

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7 Dec

North Korea leaves us guessing

Big Issue’s weekly task is to highlight what’s on the radar – but once in a while we need to look at what’s off the radar. The shelling of Yeonpyeong […]

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