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31 Aug

CTV hires Digital Media team

CTV Digital Media has made several new appointments, including Jon Taylor, the new senior director of content, and Rob Adams, now director of partnerships and platforms. Broadcaster Magazine reports: “[Taylor] […]

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31 Aug

No boost for community TV

This past week the CRTC has been under fire for a “paternalistic” new policy on community television. OpenMedia declared the CRTC failed to make history at an opportune moment. Groups […]

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30 Aug

CRTC’s new community TV policy “paternalistic”: CACTUS

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s new community TV policy is little better than the old one and fails to address the real issues facing community programmers, says an industry […]

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30 Aug

Bilan médiatique de l’été: les sports dominent, les femmes s’éclipsent

Les nouvelles les plus médiatisées de l’été 2010 au Québec ont été majoritairement à caractère sportif, selon Influence Communication. Dans son rapport estival dévoilé aujourd’hui, la firme de veille et […]

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30 Aug

Undercover cop posed as journalist

An undercover cop, posing as a journalist, convinced a prisoner to trust her, promising that anything he told her wouldn’t be used in court. She lied. Now, the CAJ, CBC and […]

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30 Aug

Ian Brown now a writer-in-residence

Canadian journalist and writer Ian Brown has been named writer-in-residence at the Stratford Chefs School. D.B. Scott reports on his Canadian Magazines blog: “[Brown] will spend two weeks at the chefs school […]

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29 Aug

NY Times boss outlines accountability measures

The New York Times‘s various mechanisms for accountability to readers and subjects, include, according to its executive editor, not just the public editor but a managing editor and associate editor […]

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27 Aug

Les journalistes courraient à leur perte avec une certification professionnelle

C’est ce qu’affirme le professeur Pierre Simard de l’École Nationale d’Administration à Québec dans une lettre ouverte publiée dans La Presse aujourd’hui en réaction à la proposition des jeunes libéraux […]

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27 Aug

A journalist by any other name…

It’s becoming harder to define who – and what – a journalist is. What should we call this new breed of information gatherers? And why does it matter? In an […]

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27 Aug

Tom Harrington new CBC Marketplace host

CBC News sports correspondent Tom Harrington will become the new co-host of CBC’s  investigative consumer journalism show Marketplace. He joins co-host Erica Johnson. Harrington has been nominated for Gemini awards […]

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