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1 Dec

CBC to replace Canada Now with multi-platform news

Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias reports about CBC-TV’s plans to revamp its delivery of early evening news to integrate TV, radio and web resources. But first she passes along some […]

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1 Dec

WSJ closing Canadian bureaus

The Wall Street Journal is closing all of its Canadian bureaus — in Montreal, Toronto and Calgary, the Globe and Mail reports. Maclean’s followed up with a broader story about […]

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30 Nov

Cheating culture

Ryerson University journalism professor Ivor Shapiro reviews, for the Canadian Journal of Communication, four books about recent scandals at newspapers and magazines: The Fabulist: A Novel by Stephen Glass, Burning […]

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30 Nov

Wartime coverage under fire

In “The Press at War,” written for City Journal, James Q. Wilson weighs in on the role of the press in wartime. He says, “Given press coverage of our efforts […]

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30 Nov

Bringing newspapers back

The Belfast Telegraph put together a group of leading media figures from Google News to BBC to ask them about the future of newspapers. Steve Auckland of Associated Newspapers says, […]

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30 Nov

Attempt to get access to writer’s material opposed

Two organizations are protesting a Crown attempt to get access to the research a writer compiled in writing a book about a Toronto murder case, the Globe and Mail reports. […]

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30 Nov

Ottawa press gallery in “tatters”

In a recent article for rabble.ca, veteran CBC journalist Ira Basen declares Prime Minister Stephen Harper victorious in taking down the Ottawa press gallery. Since Harper took office last February, […]

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30 Nov

Journos interviewing fake journo

Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein begs the question: “Why are journalists interviewing Sacha Baron Cohen’s alter ego as if he were actually real?” Stein says reputable news outlets such […]

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29 Nov

News anchor remembered as a pioneer

Former CBC-TV news anchorLarry Henderson, who died at 89 in London, Ont., on Monday, is remembered as someone who “embedded thenotion of the anchor in people’s minds.” In a story […]

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28 Nov

News media call Iraq conflict civil war

In his blog, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post pulls together some of the context around the decision by some major U.S. media outlets to use the term civil war […]

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