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9 Dec

Cartoonist Gary Clement on Don Cherry’s speech

National Post cartoonist Gary Clement’s current editorial lampoons Don Cherry’s now-infamous “left wing pinko media” quip.

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9 Dec

Mike Strobel on stealing scoops

In a column for the “the enemy” Torontoist, the Toronto Sun’s Mike Strobel promotes his new book (Bad Girls and Other Perils, a collection of his columns) and remembers the […]

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9 Dec

Pulitzer Prize open to multimedia journalism

In recognition of “the growing importance of visual storytelling using video” and multimedia, the Pulitzer Prize board has changed some rules to allow submissions in “all the journalistic formats that […]

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9 Dec

Tori Stafford publication ban partially lifted

An all-encompassing publication ban on the Tori Stafford murder case has been partially lifted to allow media outlets to report on a guilty plea by one of the accused. Terri-Lynne […]

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9 Dec

After 70 years, Brenda Starr leaves news beat

The redheaded star of long-running comic strip “Brenda Starr, Reporter” will file her last story on Jan. 2. The news follows the departure of another redheaded comic star, Little Orphan […]

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9 Dec

Asper back in the media biz

Leonard Asper left the media industry nine months ago during the long decline of Canwest Global Communications Corp. He’s back now after purchasing a 30% stake in specialty channel The […]

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8 Dec

Does compassion have a down side?

An article on the class website of the Journalism Program at the University of Miami makes what, at first blush, seems like an obvious point: Journalists who cover traumatic events–fires, […]

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8 Dec

Wikileaks: la guerre de l’info est en cours

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;">La saga Wikileaks a atteint un nouveau palier de tension alors que son principal protagoniste, l'énigmatique Julian Assange, entame sa seconde nuit en prison en Grande-Bretagne. Depuis que le site a bouleversé les règles du secret-défense en déclenchant le «cablegate», il suscite un discours belliqueux autant de la part de ses partisans que de ses opposants.</p>

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8 Dec

Magazines BC elects new team

Magazines BC has elected four new people to its executive slate, including TV Week‘s managing editor Kim Mah, who is now also the regional association’s president. Three other recently-vacated positions […]

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8 Dec

Meet The Canadian Press’s new owners

Three of Canada’s largest media companies will take over The Canadian Press, a move the CBC says “will complete the 93-year-old news agency’s transformation from newspaper co-operative to for-profit corporation.” […]

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