Archive
21 Jun

Dashes with Cynthia

A few weeks ago I was proofreading with a colleague of mine, who graduated from Ryerson’s magazine journalism program some years before I did, and the subject of en dashes […]

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21 Jun

RTNDA announces annual award winners

RTNDA Canada, the Association of Electronic Journalists, has announced its annual awards for Canadian news stories and programming, as well as best use of sound, video and web resources. The […]

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21 Jun

Journalist Cynthia Brouse passes away

Fact-checker, copy editor and prolific magazine writer Cynthia Brouse has passed away after a long struggle with cancer. I met Cynthia at Ryerson University, where she taught me and many, […]

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21 Jun

Blloomberg.com re-launches with free content

The financial news service Bloomberg has relaunched it’s main business news site with free, ad-supported content, along with a live feed of its TV broadcasts. In a press release, Bloomberg […]

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18 Jun

Air India report: CJFE calls for killers of journalist to be brought to justice

A long-awaited report on an inquiry in the 1984 Air India bombing shines light on the connection between the Air India case and the attempted and subsequent murder of journalist […]

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18 Jun

Was Toronto Life right?: D.B. Scott

On his Canadian Magazines blog, D.B. Scott looks at a controversial 2008 Toronto Life cover that depicts a sexy photo of Muslim teen Aqsa Parvez and suggests her death was […]

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18 Jun

The uncontrollable rise of ‘so’

A New York Times story follows the life and times of “so”, which may well be the new “um”, “oh”, “well” and, every valley gal’s favourite transition: “like”. NYT‘s Anand […]

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18 Jun

OpenFile brings hyperlocal to G20 coverage

With all the mainstream and independent working to cover the upcoming G20 summit in Toronto, the new kid on the block has cut itself out a niche. OpenFile, the new […]

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18 Jun

Sun Media fires Ottawa bureau employees

Christina Spencer, Elizabeth Thompson and Peter Zimonjic were fired from Sun Media’s Parliament Hill bureau, Toronto Sun Family reports. Rumours suggest as many as six employees were let go. The […]

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17 Jun

David Olive bites back

The Toronto Star‘s David Olive responds to Terry Corcoran’s National Post column about the CJF awards gala and the “Toronto-centric liberal collective that makes up the core of the Canadian […]

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