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17 Jun

Youths can be named pending appeal, court rules

NewsA group of Nova Scotia media outlets has successfully challenged a ruling that allowed a young man convicted of murdering a cab driver to have his identity shielded pending an […]

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16 Jun

Canadians losing faith in news media

Only half of Canadians believe news organizations get their facts straight and just a third think news is fair and balanced, according to polling data released by the Canadian Media […]

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16 Jun

BBC “light sculpture” commemorates journalists

From the BBC: A soaring glass and steel cone on top of BBC Broadcasting House in London, England, will shine a beam of light into the sky every night at […]

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16 Jun

Getting Romeneskod

In his media blog for Conde Nast’s business mag, Portfolio, former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines remembers being “Romanesko’d” out of his job in the post Jayson Blair […]

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16 Jun

The Globe and La Presse win Michener Award

The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean presented Globe and Mail editor-in-chief Edward Greenspon and La Presse editor Philippe Cantin with the 2007 Michener Award on Friday. The two papers were honoured […]

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16 Jun

Dernière semaine pour soumettre votre candidature au prix Gzowski !

C’est vendredi prochain, le 20 juin 2008, la date limite pour les mises en nomination au Prix d’excellence Peter Gzowski pour l’alphabétisation. Créé par ABC CANADA en l’honneur de Peter […]

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16 Jun

Elegy for Copy Editors

“Copy editors are more powerful than proofreaders. They untangle twisted prose. They are surgeons, removing growths of error and irrelevance.” Nice. Most copy editors never see elegant sentences like this […]

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16 Jun

AP drafting guidelines for bloggers

The Associated Press is trying “to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright,” […]

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16 Jun

News boycott

Journalists in Gaza staged a boycott of news about Israelis in Gaza on June 16. The reason was sound: journalists want to hold Israel to account for its apparent slaughter […]

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15 Jun

Copyright storm

Writers’ unions are among the few contrary voices in a storm of protest over Canada’s proposed new copyright legislation. “Everyone says it is complicated — but the anti-copyright community hasn’t […]

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