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21 Jun

Quebec catches press council flu

News that the Quebec Press Council is in Crisis raises questions about the failing health of Canada’s press councils. Required background reading is Don Sellar’s Press Councils in Sad Decline, […]

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21 Jun

Iranian protests, Twitter and the news media

To witness the impact of social networking on the news coverage of the protests in Iran is to watch the transformation of new technology to overhaul preconceived approaches to spreading […]

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21 Jun

Strike threatened at Globe and Mail

Unless labour disputes are resolved Globe and Mail news and sales employees could strike as early as June 30. Union members voted 97 per cent in favour of authorizing their […]

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20 Jun

Police posing as journalists: CJFE panel examines problems

ByGrant BucklerWhen Kelly Toughill, then a Toronto Star reporter, was sent to cover a protest near the Ontario legislature in the late 1980s, she arrived on the scene and started […]

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19 Jun

Canwest in freefall

Shares of Canwest Global Communications plunged into freefall this week, dropping to historic lows before closing Friday at 13 cents, off from a 52-week high of $3.59. The fall comes […]

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19 Jun

Windsor Star “made up quotes,” says union president

Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario president Sid Ryan has accused a Windsor Star columnist of “manufacturing a key quote.” The quote appeared in a June 16 column by […]

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19 Jun

PaidContent offers breaking news about the business of news

PaidContent.org covers the evolution of the news and media industries. It tracks everything from new digital offerings to union negotiations at newspapers and the relationship between Google and its old-media […]

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19 Jun

Q&Q announces new editor

The magazine about Canada’s book trade, Quill & Quire, has announced that staff writer Stuart Woods is now editor of the mag. Q&Q‘s previous editor, Derek Weiler, died suddenly in […]

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19 Jun

North American newspapers face $25 billion revenue drop

North American newspapers will lose a third of their advertising revenue over the next three years, according to a new report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.Canadian papers will fare better than newspapers south […]

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19 Jun

Half of UK newspapers doomed: analyst

Half of the local and regional newspapers in the United Kingdom will close by 2013, an expert witness told a House of Commons Committee.Claire Enders, of Enders Analysis, predicted a […]

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