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24 Feb

Radio-Canada : fournisseur d’Astral Média

La Société d’État Radio-Canada agit maintenant comme fournisseur officiel des contenus d’information du réseau Astral Media. Depuis le lundi 8 février, les trois réseaux radiophoniques Boom FM, Énergie et Rock-Détente utilisent les textes […]

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23 Feb

When a story doesn’t pan out…

Journalist Judith Warner thought she had a great story to tell about the overmedication of American youth. She got a book contract, and wrote a column for The New York […]

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23 Feb

Toronto-based Tamil newspaper attacked

Uthayan, a weekly Tamil newspaper, had its Toronto office vandalized over the weekend, apparently by people who disliked its reporting on a meeting between Kula Sellathurai, president of the Canada-Sri […]

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23 Feb

Plagiarism: “What was I thinking?”

After cases of “apparent plagiarism” arose in his work, New York Times business reporter Zachery Kouwe ultimately resigned from the paper, admitting the similarities between his work and a series […]

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22 Feb

Is your j-school failing you?

During a recent trip to give a guest lecture at an American j-school, Paul Gillin at Newspaper Death Watch was shocked at the naïveté he witnessed in the students: his […]

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22 Feb

Americans bemoan Canadian Olympic television

“Canadian TV Switch Displeases Americans,” reported the New York Times, in a story about how American viewers accustomed to watching CBC television are upset they no longer have an option […]

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22 Feb

PWAC launches two writing awards

The Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) has created two writing awards for work that has appeared in “a paying Canadian print or web media outlet in 2009,” the organization […]

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22 Feb

Death by double entendre

Early this year Canadian history magazine The Beaver announced a rebranding effort that included a name change. The upcoming April issue of the mag will be titled Canada’s History. In […]

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22 Feb

Court approves Shaw bid for Canwest

The Ontario Superior Court approved Shaw Communications Inc.’s takeover bid for Canwest Global Communications’ television assets, Canwest announced. Just hours before the court approval, Catalyst Capital Group announced a rival […]

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21 Feb

Will the National Enquirer win a Pulitzer Prize?

To avoid irrelevance, mainstream journalism outlets can no longer ignore celebrity stories, writes Cecil Rosner. But the real issue is prioritizing investigative work. Some days — if not most days […]

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