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17 Nov

Bringing the world home

The Globe and Mail‘s recent decision to quietly close its Moscow bureau is a reminder of the important role many Canadian journalists play in bringing news from the rest of […]

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17 Nov

Looking back: photographing the Iran hostage crisis

During six months in Iran covering the 1979 hostage crisis, photojournalist Peter Bregg was blindfolded and kidnapped, had his office ransacked, lost photos, had equipment confiscated and continued to transmit […]

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17 Nov

Les médias québécois atteints de consanguinité intellectuelle?

“Au Québec ce n’est pas le jour de la marmotte, mais l’opinion de la marmotte.” La blogueuse Émilie Dubreuil déplore la tendance des médias à tendre le micro aux commentateurs […]

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17 Nov

The nuts and bolts of media relations

Author William Wray Carney has produced a “highly readable, practical and scholarly” but at times “dated” text on media relations with In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in […]

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17 Nov

Stay clear of my camera

QUESTION: I’m a freelance photojournalist – I take photos of people out and about and on the town. Some of this I report to 24hrs news, the rest I put […]

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17 Nov

Turned down again

When Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC Radio’s The Current, invites federal cabinet ministers to be interviewed she is turned down more often than not, writes Leslie Shepherd. The show […]

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17 Nov

News orgs appeal decision on publication bans for bail hearings

A group of news organizations including the Toronto Star, CBC, Associated Press and CTV have asked the Supreme Court of Canada to strike down a law that makes publication bans […]

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17 Nov

Vox pop congrès FPJQ 2009

Des participants au congrès de la FPJQ répondent à la question suivante : Que vous inspire le thème “Sortie de crise”? Réunissant : Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay (L’Actualité), Alain Castonguay (journaliste indépendant), […]

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16 Nov

Beyond the Palin

If reporters and editors stopped giving gratuitous publicity to Sarah Palin, would she be newsworthy?

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16 Nov

Congrès FPJQ: la lecture d’un gérant d’estrade

Alex Cayla, étudiant à la maîtrise à HEC Montréal et blogueur, a participé en “observateur” au Congrès de la FPJQ. Il déplore la résistance au changement des journalistes et propose […]

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