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6 Oct

Leçon de journalisme 101 : lintérêt public

Le journal La Presse a fait une mise au point dans son édition du vendredi 18 septembre pour justifier la publication d’un texte sur le passé du vice-président du comité […]

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6 Oct

Media companies are converging, so should the unions

In The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? scholars Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco argue for larger, more powerful unions to combat the media concentration that’s […]

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6 Oct

Canwest did not intend to be road kill

“We don’t intend to be one of the corpses lying beside the information highway,” says Israel Asper, chairman of Canwest Global.” The CBC archives captured what family head Izzy Asper […]

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6 Oct

Kinsella on Canwest journalists

Blogged Warren Kinsella: “My sincere hope, naïve as it may be, is that the amazing journalists and editors at Canwest hold onto their jobs, and that they emerge stronger than […]

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6 Oct

Canwest on the stock exchange

There are lots of questions about Canwest and the future of its many media operations, after much of the company was granted creditor protection Tuesday. But here’s one question that’s […]

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6 Oct

Canwest units under creditor protection

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted most of the Canwest Global Communications organization protection from creditors at mid-morning Tuesday, ending years of uncertainty about Canwest’s massive debt load. The […]

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6 Oct

Show students how to sculpt in a new medium

If we create j-school curriculum based on secrecy, control and broadcast we’re not training students to lead, writes Wayne MacPhail, we’re teaching them to do what’s already been done, but […]

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6 Oct

Wanna cover the Olympics? Win a job at the Globe

The Globe and Mail has launched Journalism Dream Contest, a search for one amateur reporter and one amateur photographer to cover the Olympics for the company. According to to a […]

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5 Oct

Transcontinental writers say ‘Ya Basta!’

More than a dozen Canadian writers’ groups banded together and issued a boycott notice against Transcontinental on September 30. “It’s about time that independent writers got our act together,” writes […]

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5 Oct

Canadian Living adds payment for recently announced internship program

When Canadian Living announced its new journalism contest/internship program last month, which included a writing contest and an unpaid internship for the winner, it was met with a wave of […]

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