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20 Dec

A tip of the hat

This week’s Big Issue gives a tip of the hat to outgoing J-Source editor-in-chief Ivor Shapiro, who handed over the EIC reins to Janice Neil on Dec. 10. “I won’t […]

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19 Dec

L’état de la nouvelle

Comme chaque année, depuis cinq ans, Influence communication vient de publier son bilan annuel de l’actualité. Cette revue médiatique est très prisée… des médias. Outre Chantal Hébert, dans son blogue […]

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18 Dec

Koring, Hollett, Hayes pick up Amnesty’s 2009 Media Awards

Three Canadian journalists have been named winners of Amnesty International Canada’s fifteenth annual Media Awards. Paul Koring, Jennifer Hollett and David Hayes were honoured for “outstanding reporting about human rights […]

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17 Dec

Yappy colleagues, translator loses it on air

The title of this youtube  video says it all: “CBC Translator Loses It.”

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17 Dec

Amanda Lindhout gives thanks

Maybe Amanda Lindhout really is not a journalist, as some critics have recently charged. Her first statement since being freed from her Somali kidnappers and arriving back home in Canada […]

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17 Dec

CBC and National Post to team up for Olympic coverage

After announcing a sports and business news content-sharing agreement in October, the National Post and CBC have now announced plans to collaborate on coverage for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. […]

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17 Dec

News helicopter crashes in Montreal

A helicopter used for traffic reporting by Quebec television network TVA crashed Wednesday morning in Montreal. The pilot and journalist involved survived and are in stable condition, CBC News reports. […]

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17 Dec

15,000 lost jobs in U.S. newspaper biz in 2009: News Cycle

“At least 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry in 2009,” according to News Cycle‘s ongoing list of layoffs and buyouts in the U.S. newspaper business. News […]

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16 Dec

Communications partisanes

La question de la relation entre les médias, la population et le gouvernement Harper refait surface dans les médias. Après les pancartes sur les chantiers de construction, les chèques émis […]

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16 Dec

La presse écrite victime de plagiat par Google et Yahoo!

La semaine dernière, l’Agence France-Presse (AFP) publiait une nouvelle à l’effet que des sites internet reprennaient, parfois intégralement, des articles rédigés par la presse écrite. Selon une étude américaine commandée par […]

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