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2 Nov

What makes a citizen a journalist?

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression honoured Paul Pritchard with its first ever Citizen Journalism Award on Tuesday. Pritchard recorded Robert Dziekanski being tasered to death in the Vancouver airport, and […]

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2 Nov

Magazines Canada releases 2009 Factbook

Canadian industry association Magazines Canada has released the 2009 edition of its Consumer Magazine Factbook. According to a news release, the book “contains 72 pages of new and updated industry […]

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2 Nov

Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award open for applications

Applications are now being accepted for the newly launched Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award, the award sponsors announced. The award is in memory of award-winning photojournalist Tom Hanson. It offers a […]

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2 Nov

Court approves Post’s transfer to publishing division

An Ontario court has cleared the way for Canwest Global Communications Corp. to move the National Post into its publishing division, where it will join the companies other newspapers, The […]

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31 Oct

Protecting sources, serving justice

CommentaryLegal battles to identify confidential sources used by investigative reporters Andrew McIntosh and Daniel Leblanc will force the Supreme Court of Canada to address a question that strikes at the […]

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30 Oct

Journalists to carry the Olympic torch

In a news item title “Canada’s Olympic Storytellers to carry the flame,” CTVGlobemedia recently announced that journalists from the company (including CTV, TSN, RDS, Discovery Channel and The Globe and […]

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30 Oct

ROB mag on the downfall of Canwest

In “The day Leonard Asper lost the street,” Globe and Mail reporter Grant Robertson calls January 28, 2008 the day Asper “lost Bay Street.” Robertson writes: “Defenders of Leonard Asper […]

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29 Oct

National Post could shut down if transfer not approved, CP reports

With creditors refusing to continue funding the National Post, Canwest said it may have to shut down the struggling newspaper if a planned transfer of the paper into a different […]

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29 Oct

Pregnant women, pandemics and politics

Susan Delacourt from the Toronto Star covers a bizarre bout of heckling and laughter Tuesday in the House of Commons as Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett (a physician and former public health minister) […]

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29 Oct

La Presse reaches deal with some, not all, employee unions

Montreal’s La Presse has reached a deal with four of the eight employee unions it deals with, the newspaper announced. At the beginning of Sept., La Presse threatened to shut […]

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