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4 Mar

To web or not to web

Online publishing for a farm audience throws up a particular challenge. While urban-based journalists may be contemplating the virtues of using social networks such as Twitter to research and report […]

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4 Mar

A changing “ethos” at The Walrus

A new look, a trimmed staff and renewed fundraising efforts are just a few of the major changes at The Walrus magazine under new editor and co-publisher John Macfarlane. In […]

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3 Mar

Le Bloc plaide en faveur de Daniel Leblanc

Le Bloc Québécois a demandé au gouvernement fédéral d’intervenir pour éviter que le journaliste Daniel Leblanc ne soit forcé de dévoiler l’identité de la source “Ma Chouette”. Celle-ci lui a […]

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3 Mar

CTV cuts 118 jobs at A Channel

CTV Television Inc. announced that it is restructuring at a number of its “A” branded stations, which will include cancellation of some morning programs and evening newscasts as well as […]

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3 Mar

Twitter to the rescue

By Aaron Broverman The Globe and Mail lays off editorial staff, the Chicago Tribune files for bankruptcy, the Rocky Mountain News shuts down after nearly 150 years of serving Denver. […]

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3 Mar

Access to court files: law, reality miles apart

FeatureThere’s a growing chorus of complaint that access to key court documents — informations setting out criminal charges, exhibits tendered during trials, youth court dockets — has become increasingly restrictive […]

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2 Mar

CNW launches Greenwire

Commercial news distribution network CNW Group has launched Greenwire, a categorized feed for environmental or green news. A new Greenwire button has been added to the main CNW site, which […]

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2 Mar

Afghan journalists fight to get the news out

ByVictoria Wells When Ahmad Zia went back to Afghanistan to work as a journalist for the newspaper Kabul Weekly, he knew he wanted to help rebuild the country. And journalism […]

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2 Mar

Les ex-politiciens dans les médias québécois

Radio-Canada.ca | Le chef démissionnaire de l’ADQ, Mario Dumont, animera une émission quotidienne d’affaires publiques à TQS dès septembre. De plus en plus de politiciens font le saut en information, […]

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2 Mar

CJF Lifetime Achievement Award winner announced

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) announced that CBC Television correspondent Joe Schlesinger is the 2009 recipient of its  Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will be handed out at the CJF’s […]

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