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6 Jan

Competition opens for 2011 Youth Media Alliance awards

The Youth Media Alliance has launched its bi-annual awards, which recognize excellence in Canadian-made, youth-oriented productions. To be eligible, productions must have been broadcast or published online between January 1, […]

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6 Jan

Eight Canadian docs receive funding

Eight Canadian documentary projects have been awarded cash and no-interest loans worth more than $200,000. These new additions bring the total of Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds-sponsored documentaries to 62. (Read […]

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6 Jan

Sun TV’s “spiritual leader” Kory Teneycke is back

After a high-profile exit, Kory Teneycke is coming back to Sun TV. And Ezra Levant couldn’t be happier. Teneycke left the right-leaning network in mid-September, telling reporters that he worried […]

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5 Jan

Kory Teneycke returns to lead Sun TV

Almost four months after he stepped down from his role of VP of the new right-leaning Sun TV amidst controversy, Kory Teneycke is coming back to lead the network. The […]

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5 Jan

Postmedia reporter ordered to reveal source

Vancouver Province reporter Elaine O’Connor has been ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court to reveal her source on a story about a former Liberal MP. Province editor-in-chief Wayne Moriarty said […]

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5 Jan

2010: Year of the Really Super New New Journalism

Reporters are repeaters, content is king, and Oprah is a journalist. By Shannon Rupp, The Tyee. Another sign that 2010 will be the year we admit 20th century journalism is […]

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5 Jan

Why iPad magazine sales are plummeting, and how to stop it

As the first wave of enthusiastic this-is-the-Future! iPad magazine subscribers recedes drastically, it’s time for publishers to step up. On the media and tech blog Monday Note, a post by […]

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5 Jan

Two newspaper orgs combine to create Newspapers Canada

The Canadian Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, which have worked together under a co-management agreement for the past two years, will relaunch under a combined umbrella title: […]

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5 Jan

Fewer journalists requesting access to information

Last year, the amount of access to information requests journalists made to government dropped 23%. The CBC’s David McKie — who relies on ATI requests to tell important stories — […]

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5 Jan

“Look lives”: Eroding journalistic integrity one hit at a time?

If you watch the news, you’ve probably seen a “look live”. That news-speak term means a reporter who appears to be live in the field, but was taped doing the […]

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