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6 Aug

CTV weathercaster to co-host Live! With Regis and Kelly

CTV BC weathercaster Tamara Taggart was chosen to guest co-host Live! With Regis and Kelly in August. Taggart made the top ten in a contest called “From Local to Live […]

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5 Aug

Error prevention advice from Craig Silverman

After The New York Times published a story about Walter Cronkite that contained seven errors, the paper’s public editor Clark Hoyt wrote a column assessing the situation. The Cronkite story […]

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5 Aug

CBC denies having plans to move The National

When industry watchdog Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (FCB) issued a press release stating that CBC has a “closely guarded secret plan” to move The National to 11 p.m. from 10 […]

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5 Aug

CTV cameraman dead in chopper crash

CTV cameramen Hugh Haugland and pilot Roger Belanger were killed in a helicopter crash some 240 kilometres northwest of Montreal Wednesday morning. Haugland, 44, and Belanger, in his 60s, died […]

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4 Aug

Student awards and scholarships

General Awards | School-specific Awards School-specific Awards Carleton University School of Journalism and CommunicationConcordia University Department of JournalismRyerson University School of JournalismUniversity of British Columbia Graduate School of JournalismUniversity of […]

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4 Aug

Il aime ça! Il aime ça!

Courtoisie de Paulémique

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4 Aug

Re-thinking lessons for j-students

One journalism educator is rewriting her lessons for the fall semester to include more straight talk for j-students and less emphasis on old arguments about the role of journalists in […]

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4 Aug

More reassignments at CBC

As part of continued changes at CBC, the public broadcaster has announced that Peter Armstrong will be the new host of World Report on Radio One and Mark Kelley will […]

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3 Aug

Covering breaking news with investigative resources

When breaking news hits, the first available reporter grabs the phones or hits the street . There’s no time for fancy database analysis or in-depth investigation. Or is there? The […]

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1 Aug

“No story is worth a life”

Chris Cramer has been at the forefront of building a culture of safety for journalists and media workers around the world.  In an interview with WHYY/NPR’s “Fresh Air,” the honorary […]

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