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13 Feb

Ontario premier asks media for “breathing space”

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s office has instituted a new media rule: don’t stand so close to me. His team has asked all media to stand at least five feet away […]

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12 Feb

Calgary biz mag folds

RedPoint Media Group has announced that Calgary Inc., a business magazine published by the company, will publish its final issue in March. As a result of the closure, five employees […]

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12 Feb

Twittering when angry: National Post apologizes for reporter’s tweets

A heated exchange on Twitter between National Post technology reporter David George-Cosh and PR rep April Dunford led Post editors to issue an apology for George-Cosh’s behaviour. The at-times crude […]

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12 Feb

La politique recrute toujours

Lise Millette, ProjetJ | Un autre journaliste passera du côté politique. Réjean Harvey de CFLM à La Tuque, deviendra attaché politique pour la ministre des Transports du Québec Julie Boulet. Selon […]

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12 Feb

Les médias régionaux démunis devant le multimédia

Pierre-Marc René, journaliste indépendant | L’avènement du multimédia dans les médias nationaux a poussé les hebdos régionaux à développer leur site Internet pour que la population locale puisse avoir un […]

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12 Feb

CBC online discussion draws hate complaint

NewsA group of Manitoba chiefs is urging hate charges be filed against the CBC for what it called “racist and hateful” comments about natives posted on the broadcaster’s website. But […]

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11 Feb

Will Gaza debacle give Al Jazeera entry to Canadian airwaves?

Tony Burman, formerly former editor-in-chief of CBC News and  now managing director of Al Jazeera English, said Israel’s decision to prohibit foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip during the […]

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11 Feb

Expelled by Sudan

From a press release by Reporters Without Borders: MONTREAL, Feb. 11 /CNW Telbec/ – Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly, who worked in Khartoum for several international media from June 2008 was expelled by […]

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11 Feb

Cooke new TorStar editor

Michael Cooke will become the new editor of the Toronto Star on March 1, the paper announced. Cooke replaces editor-in-chief Fred Kuntz,  who left in December just a few months […]

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11 Feb

Jon Stewart on saving newspapers

“You know how when you read newspapers and the newsprint comes off in your hands? What if we made that highly addictive narcotic? So that if you read it, you’d […]

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