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5 Apr

Sun TV head Luc Lavoie: “I don’t have a social mission”

Sun News lands on the Canadian media landscape in three weeks. Dubbed “Fox News North” in anticipation of its right-wing slant, the Quebec network will rely on the existing controversy […]

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5 Apr

Péladeau sur le JdeM: le syndicat n’a pas compris l’évolution du marché

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;">Le président de Quebecor, propriétaire du <i>Journal de Montréal</i>, a accordé ce matin une rare entrevue à l'antenne du 98,5FM. L'animateur de l'émission matinale, Paul Arcand, l'a questionné pendant près d'une demi-heure sur son investissement dans l'amphithéâtre de Québec, mais surtout sur le conflit de travail qui a affecté le navire amiral de son empire pendant les deux dernières années. <i>Projetj</i> a retranscrit un extrait de l'<a href="http://www.985fm.ca/audioplayer.php?mp3=96436">entretien</a>:</p>

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5 Apr

Maritime mag opens restaurant

Halifax-based Saltscapes magazine is branching out into the restaurant biz. The local mag first talked about extending the brand five years ago, but loyal readers (who often compete for recipe […]

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5 Apr

Veteran journos dish on election

CBC’s The House has enlisted veteran journalists Tom Clark (who has covered every election since 1974) and Kevin Newman (every election since 1988) to help “cut through the spin.” The […]

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5 Apr

The Twitter campaign: what it means so far

Twitter may have existed during 2008’s campaign — the little birdie just turned five — but it was nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is now. Indeed, as Kathleen Petty […]

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5 Apr

Cash for the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting

The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting has received a whopping $37,000 from the Montreal-based Chawkers Foundation. (Chawkers also funds The Walrus; the foundation was founded in 1988 by Ken Alexander’s […]

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5 Apr

Sun newspapers attacking CBC TV for “political bias” ahead of SunTV launch?

Simon Houpt says just weeks before the Sun is about to launch its own tv station, the newspaper is writing a number of critical articles about the CBC, accusing it […]

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4 Apr

Canadians won’t pay for news online: study

Surprise, surprise: Online pay walls may not be the stuff of publishers’ dreams, after all. At least, not in Canada. According to a recently released study by the Canadian Media […]

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4 Apr

Quand le peuple dicte l’info

Les propos de Luc Lavoie, architecte de Sun News, à notre micro, n’en finissent pas de faire sourciller. Le chroniqueur média du Devoir, Stéphane Baillargeon, y consacre ce matin une […]

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1 Apr

Toronto city staffers trash NOW’s near-nude Rob Ford issue

NOW magazine considers legal action: Updated  04/01 @ 5:35 p.m. It didn’t take long for Toronto city staffers to react after copies of NOW Magazine‘s March 31st edition, featuring a […]

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