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22 Oct

World Food Day on community radio

Montreal, October 21th, 2010  –  The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC covered the World Food Day, on October 16th, 2010 with a 24-hour Worldwide Webcast emphasizing this year […]

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22 Oct

Miners in Chile: Media missed moment to show truth

While press fastened on rescue of Chileans, the human toll of global mining went ignored, Dawn Paley reports. While audiences around the world watched 33 miners emerge from deep under […]

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22 Oct

Globe ruling sends strong message to protect sources

NewsThe Supreme Court of Canada has sent a strong message to judges, warning them that journalists should be ordered to identify confidential sources only in rare circumstances — especially the […]

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22 Oct

Decision reinforces case-by-case approach to protecting sources

The Supreme Court of Canada has sent the case of a Globe and Mail reporter who refused to identify an anonymous source used in stories about the Quebec sponsorship scandal […]

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22 Oct

Winners announced for Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Macleans.ca, Torontoist.com and CBCnews.ca are among the winners of the 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The second annual event, hosted by Masthead, awards excellence in online editorial and innovation by […]

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21 Oct

Twitter et cie: outils de promotion ou de création de l’info?

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le <i>Washington Post</i> a demandé cette semaine à ses journalistes de ne pas s'engager dans des discussions avec leurs lecteurs sur Twitter. Le quotidien a rappelé à son personnel que les médias sociaux doivent uniquement être utilisés à titre de canaux de promotion pour attirer des lecteurs vers le journal et les inciter à commenter les articles.</p>

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21 Oct

LaPointe’s moving on

Kirk LaPointe is leaving the Vancouver Sun to become the new CBC ombudsman. Here’s a link where he explains his new job.

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20 Oct

Newspaper readership deemed “strong”

NADbank’s Canadian newspaper readership numbers for 2009 are out and spinning. Statistics released by NADbank indicate 73 per cent of adults read a printed newspaper at least once druing the week (that figure rises […]

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20 Oct

Journalists in Chile trapped by human interest angle

By Claude Adams For the Chilean miners, as for the reporters who covered the story, the common theme of the 70-day drama in the desert was entrapment. The miners were […]

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20 Oct

Liberté de presse: le Canada recule

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Classé 19e au monde en 2009, le Canada est désormais au 21e rang du classement mondial de la liberté de presse de Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Si sur 178, la 21e place peu sembler enviable, il y a de quoi sourciller au regard de la note globale canadienne. Celle-ci est en effet passée de 3,7 en 2009 à 7 en 2010, 0 étant la meilleure note (Finlande) et 105 la pire (Érythrée).</p>

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