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8 Jul

Investigative … torture

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist known for his support of the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terror, has subjected himself to waterboarding. The experiment was done in answer […]

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8 Jul

New design mag to launch this week

Canadian Architecture & Design Magazine is set to launch this Friday, July 11. The magazine is the current project of Northern Ontario-focused design mag, North of 89,  publisher Mike Dunphy. […]

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8 Jul

Station 940 News: le SCEP-FTQ dépose une plainte au CRTC

SCEP-FTQ – CNW Telbec | Le SCEP-FTQ) a déposé une plainte au CRTC suite au changement de programmation imposé par le propriétaire de la station montréalaise, CORUS.“Cette décision est absolument déplorable. Non seulement ça […]

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7 Jul

Brauchli new boss at Washington Post

Former Wall Street Journal editor Marcus Brauchli has been named executive editor of The Washington Post, stepping into the large shoes of the legendary Leonard Downie, Jr. Brauchli was briefly […]

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7 Jul

Calgarian inspires loyal news audience in NYC

In this mini-profile of morning news anchor Pat Kiernan, The Man Who Plays Pat Kiernan on TV, the New York Observer says “thousands of culturally literate New Yorkers” have “a […]

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7 Jul

China’s broken promise

Human Rights Watch has released a new report, “China’s Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other ‘Sensitive’ Stories.” It said China’s government “continues to block and threaten […]

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4 Jul

Kory Teneycke tagged as Harper’s new communications director

Canadian Press reports that a former energy-industry lobbyist and Reform party activist is expected to become Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new communications director. An excerpt of the CP story: “Highly […]

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4 Jul

Book examines media ethics from global perspective

By Stephen J. A. Ward  One leading edge of media ethics research is the search for an ethics appropriate to today’s global journalism. A growing number of ethicists and scholars […]

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4 Jul

Don’t risk reader relationships with “sneaky manoeuvers”

By Bob Sexton If it looks like crap and smells like crap, it’s probably going to taste like crap. And who, other than your dog, really wants to eat crap? […]

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4 Jul

Online ads up

A release from the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada said online ad revenues in Canada rose some 38 per cent, to more than $1.2 billion, between 2006 and 2007. A […]

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