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31 Oct

Protecting sources, serving justice

CommentaryLegal battles to identify confidential sources used by investigative reporters Andrew McIntosh and Daniel Leblanc will force the Supreme Court of Canada to address a question that strikes at the […]

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30 Oct

Journalists to carry the Olympic torch

In a news item title “Canada’s Olympic Storytellers to carry the flame,” CTVGlobemedia recently announced that journalists from the company (including CTV, TSN, RDS, Discovery Channel and The Globe and […]

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30 Oct

ROB mag on the downfall of Canwest

In “The day Leonard Asper lost the street,” Globe and Mail reporter Grant Robertson calls January 28, 2008 the day Asper “lost Bay Street.” Robertson writes: “Defenders of Leonard Asper […]

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29 Oct

National Post could shut down if transfer not approved, CP reports

With creditors refusing to continue funding the National Post, Canwest said it may have to shut down the struggling newspaper if a planned transfer of the paper into a different […]

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29 Oct

Pregnant women, pandemics and politics

Susan Delacourt from the Toronto Star covers a bizarre bout of heckling and laughter Tuesday in the House of Commons as Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett (a physician and former public health minister) […]

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29 Oct

La Presse reaches deal with some, not all, employee unions

Montreal’s La Presse has reached a deal with four of the eight employee unions it deals with, the newspaper announced. At the beginning of Sept., La Presse threatened to shut […]

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29 Oct

Ditch the adjectives

“Show don’t tell” can be a difficult concept for a young journalism students to grasp, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of peppering your writing with adjectives in […]

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28 Oct

Canwest to transfer National Post to publishing division

“Canwest’s publishing division signed a deal last night to reunite the National Post with its other newspaper assets after a four-year absence,” the Post reports. Once the courts and senior […]

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28 Oct

AJAs open for entries

The Atlantic Journalism Awards (AJAs) is now inviting journalists in the region to enter their journalistic stories and images in the 2009 AJAs competition. Entries must be postmarked by Friday, […]

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28 Oct

[UPDATED] Rinehart no longer EIC at Metro Canada

[Note: This post has been updated] Dianne Rinehart has stepped down as editor-in-chief of Metro Canada’s six English newspapers.   Rinehart, who was running the newspapers in Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, […]

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