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14 Jul

Worried about Fox News North? You shouldn’t be

In a column for the Globe and Mail, Jeffrey Simpson writes about the so-called “liberal media tilt”, Sun TV’s quest for favoured cable placement and why it doesn’t matter. Simpson […]

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14 Jul

Global gets NBC correspondent

Veteran journalist Dawna Friesen will take over for Kevin Newman as Global National’s new anchor. Manitoba-born Friesen has worked as a London-based correspondent and anchor for NBC News, Today and […]

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14 Jul

Writers join forces to fight new copyright bill

Freelance journalists, poets, playwrights, translators and fiction and non-fiction book writers will join forces to protest Canada’s new copyright legislation, which they say could be devastating to the writing trade, […]

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14 Jul

Libel ruling a ‘blow to investigative journalism’

A libel ruling against the Times by a UK court of appeal has been called a blow to investigative journalism by media lawyers. The Guardian reports: “In a case brought […]

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14 Jul

Canwest creditor protection over

Canwest’s newspaper division, which includes The National Post and other big city dailies, has emerged from creditor protection and confirmed Postmedia Network Canada Corp. as its new owners. Postmedia is […]

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14 Jul

On Facebook, Playboy is king

Playboy has more Facebook fans than CNN, The Economist, The New York Times and the BBC. Facebakers, a portal run by Candytech that deciphers Facebook statistics, applications and data is […]

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13 Jul

Editors in distress

Low pay, high anxiety, long hours and short-staffed. The life of today’s magazine editor. This week we feature Whitney Wager’s story from the summer issue of the Ryerson Review of […]

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13 Jul

The conduct of public inquiries

Whether its about G20, Air India or Mulroney-Schreiber, good, bad or indifferent public inquiries make news and reporters are sent to cover them, Peter Rehak writes. Yet, relatively little has […]

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13 Jul

The 65ft rule: Media and the BP spill

As the cleanup of BP’s massive oil spill continues, the U.S. Coast Guard has created a blanket rule that keeps everyone – including the media –at least 65 feet away […]

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13 Jul

Canadian Press goes private: analysis

The sale of the non-profit Canadian Press to a trio of private companies may give the news service a much-needed influx of money to back its cutting-edge approach to news, […]

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