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2 Nov

New website and mobile app searches all Canadian dailies

Eye.ca is a new website — also available as an iPhone app — that allows users to search all Canadian daily newspapers at once. It aims to “keep an eye […]

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2 Nov

News Corp.’s paywall drives away nearly 90% of readers

The numbers are in for the first four months of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.’s foray into paywalls — only 1.5 per cent of its pre-paywall readers have ponied up cash […]

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2 Nov

Access to court exhibits a public right: appeals judge

Journalists have long faced barriers while trying to access court exhibits, but The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that full public access to the courts includes the right to […]

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2 Nov

CBC/Radio-Canada en route vers ses 75 ans

Le 2 novembre 1936, la Société Radio-Canada (SRC) succédait à la Commission canadienne de la radiodiffusion et prenait le contrôle de la radio nationale en tant que service public. La […]

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2 Nov

Tech on trial

As one of the decade’s most horrifying stories unfolded in a Belleville courtroom, newsrooms experimented with new ways of reporting, Rob Washburn writes. Here’s how journalists tackled the story, in […]

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2 Nov

When j-students cover a killer

Two second-year Loyalist College j-students, Trish Allison and Nicole Kleinsteuber, on what they learned from covering the sentencing of admitted rapist and murderer Russell Williams. Lesson one: dealing with guilt. […]

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2 Nov

How to live-report depravity and move on with your life

Live coverage of the Russell Williams’ case had reporters making on-the-fly editorial and ethical decisions while facing a horrific barrage of images and information. Now that the sentencing is over, […]

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2 Nov

One reporter’s trial

A cautionary tale from CBC Radio reporter Dave Seglins on the consequences of a sleepless week covering the sentencing of Russell Williams. Not an hour after I’d wrapped up filing […]

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2 Nov

Satirical rally puts spotlight on media coverage

With Glen Beck and Jon Stewart leading rallies, is the U.S. heading toward personality media? This weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity left some journalists scratching their heads about how to […]

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1 Nov

Windsor Star columnist faces fire for use of “blackshirt”

Windsor Star columnist Chris Vander Doelen‘s description of union activists as “blackshirts” — a term commonly used to define Mussolini’s and Hitler’s nefarious secret police — has some readers demanding […]

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