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15 Dec

“I’ve never run a newspaper, but…” Steve Paikin on the Star reassigning Jim Coyle

By Steve Paikin. TVO’s The Agenda I’ve never run a newspaper. I’ve never managed a baseball team. I’ve never coached a hockey team. But that’s never stopped me — or […]

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15 Dec

Al-Jazeera forcée de fermer ses bureaux au Koweït

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Par Andréanne Lévesque, étudiante à l'Université Laval </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">La chaîne de télévision arabe Al-Jazeera se voit dans l’obligation de fermer une de ses stations basée au Koweït. À la suite de nombreux avertissements émis par le gouvernement, Al-Jazeera n’a pas cessé sa couverture des événements politiques du pays, tel que demandé.</p>

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15 Dec

Thomson Reuters to launch U.S. news service to compete with AP

Thomson Reuters will launch a new U.S. news wire service called Reuters America, in hopes of grabbing some of Associated Press’s market share. The multimillion-dollar investment is a step towards […]

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15 Dec

Zuckerberg ou Assange: Time a fait son choix

Time a nommé le créateur de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, personnalité de l’année 2010. Le comité éditorial a donc renié le vote du public qui a massivement voté pour le fondateur […]

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14 Dec

Come on in, folks

The Journal Register in Connecticut has opened its community-focused newsroom, a place where that has issued an “invitation to the audience we serve to participate in the newsgathering process and […]

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14 Dec

Dopés au sport, les médias alimenteraient le cynisme

C’est ce que semble conclure la firme Influence Communication de sa revue annuelle de l’actualité et du travail des médias. Publié aujourd’hui, le bilan 2010 du courtier en information révèle […]

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14 Dec

“They were running towards me, throwing rocks and golf balls”: Photojournalism internship winner on covering G20

Earlier this year, 24-year-old freelance photojournalist Adrien Veczan won the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s 2010 Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award. The award is open to Canadian photojournalists that have been in the […]

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14 Dec

Supreme court to hear case on links, defamation

On Tuesday, Dec. 7, the Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear the case of Wayne Crookes et al  vs. Jon Newton. Its ruling in this case may help […]

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14 Dec

“Let’s kill Julian Assange!” WikiLeaks and the power of patriotism

Last week, two prominent US columnists called for the death of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This knee-jerk patriotism — that loving your country means not embarrassing your government — undermines […]

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14 Dec

News flash: strippers smoke semi-nude!

When he published pictures of workers, dressed in the uniform of their trade, taking time out between shifts, the Torontoist news site’s editor found himself at the centre of a […]

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