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14 Feb

Crise au CRTC: une tempête dans un verre d’eau

Le bureau du Premier ministre a-t-il demandé à l’ancien vice-président du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC), Michel Arpin, de conseiller son successeur, Tom Pentefountas? «Pas du […]

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14 Feb

Charles Foran’s Mordecai wins Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction

Author Charles Foran has been awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction — and the $25,000 prize that comes with it — for his biography Mordecai: The Life and […]

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14 Feb

Les journalistes sont-ils trop branchés?

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">La majorité des Québécois jugent que les médias accordent une juste couverture aux réseaux sociaux, tels que Twitter, Facebook et YouTube, selon un sondage mené par Léger Marketing pour l'association Hebdo Québec.</p>

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14 Feb

Akin to Levant: media didn’t miss the story in Cairo

Blogger Ezra Levant thinks that mainstream media was too busy navel-gazing to pay attention to more important stories coming out of Cairo. “As always, this revolution was about them — […]

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14 Feb

Slate’s Jacob Weisberg slams The Daily

<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.jacob_weisberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">Slate </span>chairman Jacob Weisberg</a> slammed Rupert Murdoch's new i-Pad-only newspaper <span style="font-style: italic;">The Daily</span> in a lecture to j-students.<br />

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14 Feb

An Egyptian journalist on Mubarak’s resignation

In the midst of celebration, Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin, an Egyptian-born journalist, was asked to put aside his journalistic impartiallity for a moment to to the viewers how he personally […]

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14 Feb

Ann Coulter: “There should be more jailed journalists”

Ann Coulter thinks more journalists ought to be thrown in jail. During her speech at the annual Republican conference CPAC, Coulter was asked why her party was supportive of free […]

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14 Feb

Call for papers: covering Canadian crimes

The University of Western Ontario has put out a call for papers for a text that will examine the link between journalism and crime as it evolves in a changing […]

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14 Feb

So, you want to be a journalist?

A new website founded by Fabiola Carletti, a graduate student and teaching assistant at the UBC School of Journalism, aims to answer any question j-students and new graduates might have […]

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14 Feb

John Vaillant wins $40,000 non-fiction prize

John Vaillant’s The Tiger, which follows the plight of tigers — including a man-eating one — in Russia’s far east, has won the B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction, beating out […]

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