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22 Oct

Sun columnist wins award for sex-abuse story

Sun Media columnist Mark Bonokoski has won the national Beyond Borders media award for an article that exposed ex-Toronto private school teacher John Inglis as a pedophile, reports CNews. Bonokoski began […]

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22 Oct

10 conseils aux journalistes vidéos

Michel Dumais, Blogue MédiaBiz Ils sont de plus en plus présents aux conférences de presse, et leurs «deadlines» sont les mêmes que leurs confrères de la presse électronique : vite, […]

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22 Oct

Médias – La nouvelle qui fait vendre

Paul Cauchon, Le Devoir L’appétit des grands empires est sans limites. Quelqu’un peut-il citer l’exemple d’un grand groupe médiatique qui aurait réduit volontairement sa taille par crainte de trop contrôler […]

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21 Oct

Electronic media as the “fifth” estate

William Dutton, an academic and British Internet expert, has some interesting ideas about how a ‘fifth estate’ could support greater accountability in politics and the media. He gave a lecture […]

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21 Oct

Peeling the onion

A U.S. think piece asks of the phenomenon of a publication full of fake news that rivals America’s ninth-largest newspaper in circulation, “Is The Onion our most intelligent newspaper?” An […]

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19 Oct

Transport Canada puts aviation data online

Transport Canada has quietly posted a searchable version of its CADORS aviation database to its website. You’ll recall this is the data that formed the backbone of Collision Course, the […]

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19 Oct

CBC uses data to probe nursing home violence

CBC’s investigative unit is at it again with a series of stories on violence in Canada’s nursing homes. The stories started airing on Marketplace October 17, and continued on CBC […]

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18 Oct

Saskatchewan ban on public servant interviews

A public affairs spokesperson says Saskatchewan’s health department has imposed a total ban on anyone giving media interviews, on any topic, to any journalist anywhere, for the duration of the provincial […]

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18 Oct

In defence of newspapers

“A lot of journalists and former journalists and bloggers seem to hate their newspapers because of some vague psychic or moral sensibility, as if some great social contract has been […]

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18 Oct

Media deregulation proposed again in the U.S.

American media conglomerates would be the big winners under a plan circulated this week by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The plan would, reported the New York Times, relax media […]

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