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12 Oct

<i>Los Angeles Times</i> hires own reporters for ideas to boost circulation

The Los Angeles Times has put its own reporters to work to find new ideas to increase readership both for the paper and online. The effort is being dubbed the […]

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12 Oct

Supreme Court rules on freelancers’ rights

The Supreme Court of Canada today issued a ruling that was a partial victory for freelance writers across Canada. The court ruled that publishers cannot reproduce the work freelancers do […]

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12 Oct

Canadian wins World Press Photo of the Year

Canadian photojournalist Finbarr O’Reilly has won the World Press Photo of the Year with a dramatic shot of a starving child in Niger, Africa. The 35-year-old Ryerson University graduate’s photo […]

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6 Oct

CTV journalist heads to U.S.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Ravi Baichwal “emerged from among hundreds of candidates” for the weekend news anchor job at WLS-Channel 7, the top-rated station in Chicago.

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5 Oct

Free expression … within limits

By Dean Jobb As the debate raged over publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in February 2006, about 100 students gathered at the fortress-like administration building at Saint Mary’s University […]

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4 Oct

Mack Laing dies in London

Mack Laing, a teacher, mentor and friend to generations of journalism students, died Saturday in London, Ontario. There are few details available yet, but it is unlikely that there will […]

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4 Oct

Journalists among Gemini winners

Bob Culbert and Hana Gartner are two of seven winners of special Geminiawards from the Academy of Cinema & Television.

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3 Oct

Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left

Culture Wars: The Media And The British LeftCurran, James, Ivor Gaber, Julian PetleyColumbia University Press, 2006 It may have been just one of those interesting coincidences that surface from time […]

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3 Oct

When Civil War Becomes Personal

By Haig Bailan Colombo, Sri Lanka — For the past month, while the front pages of world newspapers were dominated by news of bombs flying in Lebanon and Israel, the […]

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3 Oct

Vancouver journalist wins PEN courage award

Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan is named the winner of the PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize for her dogged coverage of the Air India murder trials.

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