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7 Oct

Public supports watchdog press: Pew

Although recent Pew surveys in the United States have documented a serious decline in the public’s perception of news media’s performance in areas like accuracy and neutrality, the role played by the press in monitoring […]

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7 Oct

Toronto Star relaunches website

The Toronto Star has relaunched thestar.com with an updated look, new social media features and different options for viewing the homepage. The homepage now provides tabs for choosing the “way […]

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6 Oct

Radio-Canada expose les faits à ses “actionnaires”

Déterminée à exposer aux citoyens l’ampleur des services qu’ils reçoivent, la Société Radio-Canada a tenu sa première assemblée publique annuelle. Cette démonstration s’est accompagnée d’une présentation chiffrée. Résolu, le président-directeur […]

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6 Oct

Une nouvelle économie des médias

Pour préserver la qualité de la presse écrite, l’heure est peut-être venue de songer à une nouvelle économie des médias, qui passerait par la redistribution et les redevances. La logique […]

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6 Oct

Leçon de journalisme 101 : lintérêt public

Le journal La Presse a fait une mise au point dans son édition du vendredi 18 septembre pour justifier la publication d’un texte sur le passé du vice-président du comité […]

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6 Oct

Media companies are converging, so should the unions

In The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? scholars Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco argue for larger, more powerful unions to combat the media concentration that’s […]

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6 Oct

Canwest did not intend to be road kill

“We don’t intend to be one of the corpses lying beside the information highway,” says Israel Asper, chairman of Canwest Global.” The CBC archives captured what family head Izzy Asper […]

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6 Oct

Kinsella on Canwest journalists

Blogged Warren Kinsella: “My sincere hope, naïve as it may be, is that the amazing journalists and editors at Canwest hold onto their jobs, and that they emerge stronger than […]

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6 Oct

Canwest on the stock exchange

There are lots of questions about Canwest and the future of its many media operations, after much of the company was granted creditor protection Tuesday. But here’s one question that’s […]

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6 Oct

Canwest units under creditor protection

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted most of the Canwest Global Communications organization protection from creditors at mid-morning Tuesday, ending years of uncertainty about Canwest’s massive debt load. The […]

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