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11 Jun

Time is now to reclaim moral ground in journalism: Lise Bissonnette at CJF Awards

Lise Bissonnette accepts the Canadian Journalism Foundation 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award. Lise Bissonnette, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and the editors of Toronto Star and Metroland Durham Region were among the […]

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10 Jun

Toronto radio reporter receives honourary star on Walk of Fame

680News showbiz editor Gloria Martin has been given an honourary star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. She is the seventh person to receive the honour in the Walk’s 13-year history. […]

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10 Jun

CBSC: no violation as abusive comments immediately disputed

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has released its decision on a listener complaint that morning radio program The Kid Carson Show aired content that was discriminatory against women by […]

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10 Jun

Canada to get its own version of Fox

Quebecor has sought permission from the CRTC to create a Fox-style English-language 24-hour news network, The Globe and Mail reports. Reports suggest the network will be piloted by Kory Teneycke, […]

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10 Jun

‘Fox News of the North’ nabs its first host

Parliamentary reporter David Akin has resigned from Canwest to be the first host of Fox News of the North, The Globe and Mail reports. Akin will join Quebecor’s Sun Media […]

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10 Jun

Climate change coverage: what’s a science journalist to do?

An overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed articles say that climate change is real, and manmade, and suggest we need to act now. But, in the name of balanced reporting, the press […]

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10 Jun

AOL to hire “hundreds” of journalists

AOL has announced it will hire “hundreds” of journalists, editors and videographers over the next year as part of a new “content-first” business strategy, AdAge reports. David Eun, president of […]

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10 Jun

Supreme Court Upholds Bail Hearing Publication Bans

The Supreme Court of Canada has denied an appeal by several media organizations that sought to remove a Criminal Code provision making a publication ban on the proceedings of bail […]

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10 Jun

Op-ed: Ottawa’s information lockdown is bad for democracy

A group of journalism organizations have penned a joint editorial about Ottawa’s insidious information control, why it’s bad for democracy and what journalists should do about it. A few weeks […]

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10 Jun

Insider claims former CRTC president knew of corruption

A former Canadian broadcasting insider has claimed he has documents proving that CBC executive VP Richard Stursberg knew about a long-time case of corruption at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications […]

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