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7 Aug

9 fired at Montreal news talk radio station

Eight on-air personalities and one off-air employee have been let go from Montreal’s English radio station CJAD, CBC News reports. Late-night talk show host Peter Anthony Holder, weekend hosts Laurie […]

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7 Aug

North Korea frees U.S. journalists, controversy remains

Euna Lee and Laura Ling arrived back in the United States on August 6. Arrested near the border between North Korea and China in March, the two reporters for Current […]

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6 Aug

News Corp to charge for online news

Rupert Murdoch announced his News Corp.-owned publications — which in North America include the Wall Street Journal and The New York Post — will charge for online news, within one […]

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6 Aug

Should the NY Times lose the public editor position?

The public editor position was created at The New York Times after it was discovered that reporter Jayson Blair was making things up. Is the role going to remain a […]

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6 Aug

UBC j-school and CBC Radio 3 team up to create music wiki

The University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded a $15,000 grant to work with CBC Radio 3 to create a Canadian music wiki. Journalism professor Alfred […]

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6 Aug

CBC Newsworld turns 20

As CBC’s 24-hour news channel, Newsworld, celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Toronto Star feature writer Oakland Ross examines the network’s continued search for an identity, in a recent article called “Can […]

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6 Aug

CTV weathercaster to co-host Live! With Regis and Kelly

CTV BC weathercaster Tamara Taggart was chosen to guest co-host Live! With Regis and Kelly in August. Taggart made the top ten in a contest called “From Local to Live […]

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5 Aug

Error prevention advice from Craig Silverman

After The New York Times published a story about Walter Cronkite that contained seven errors, the paper’s public editor Clark Hoyt wrote a column assessing the situation. The Cronkite story […]

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5 Aug

CBC denies having plans to move The National

When industry watchdog Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (FCB) issued a press release stating that CBC has a “closely guarded secret plan” to move The National to 11 p.m. from 10 […]

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5 Aug

CTV cameraman dead in chopper crash

CTV cameramen Hugh Haugland and pilot Roger Belanger were killed in a helicopter crash some 240 kilometres northwest of Montreal Wednesday morning. Haugland, 44, and Belanger, in his 60s, died […]

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