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4 Jul

Cringe

I feel a little bit mean posting this, but it’s such a perfect example of why journalists have lost respect with the public (in this case anyone with basic science […]

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4 Jul

L’actualit appoints new publisher

Réal Germain has been appointed as publisher of French-language current affairs magazine L’actualité, Rogers Publishing announced today.  Germain moves to L’actualité from his position as vice-president of news and current […]

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4 Jul

Les agences de presse appuient lidée dun Conseil de presse

Jean-Luc Martin-Lagardette, AgoraVox| C’est une étape importante qui vient d’être franchie vers l’instauration en France d’une instance de médiation et de régulation destinée à améliorer la qualité de l’information journalistique. […]

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4 Jul

La vidéo “off” de Nicolas Sarkozy sur France 3 crée la polémique

Marie Maurisse, Le Monde | Après le scandale du “Casse-toi, pauv’con” au Salon de l’agriculture, le 24 février, Nicolas Sarkozy est une nouvelle fois au centre d’un buzz vidéo sur […]

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3 Jul

Dunces

Thought for the week: “Perhaps a nation can function without newspapers. But it would be a confederacy of dunces.”

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3 Jul

Is news becoming a charitable cause?

ByKelly Toughill The CBS television show 60 Minutes helped forge the model for investigative journalism on television four decades ago. Last Sunday night it broke that model by showcasing an […]

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3 Jul

The right to be ‘wrong-headed’

ByBrian MacLeod RogersMedia Lawyer, Toronto The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in WIC Radio Ltd. v. Simpson (2008 SCC 40) clarifies and strengthens a defence that had fallen into murky […]

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3 Jul

Christopher Hitchens: le journaliste torturé (de plein gré)

Patrick Lagacé, Cyberpresse | Christopher Hitchens est un prolifique journaliste et auteur anglo-américain. Hitchens, c’est la culture de Robert Lévesque, l’aplomb stylistique de Foglia et l’oeil politique de Chantal Hébert, […]

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3 Jul

UPDATE: Blogs shut down at Toronto Life

Toronto Life magazine has pulled the plug on at least three of its blogs in the last week. On June 30, a Torontoist blog post, “Toronto Life doesn’t care about […]

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3 Jul

Cuts, cuts and more cuts

Economic hard times in the U.S. are showing in the newspaper biz. The Los Angeles Times announced today that it will slash 250 jobs from its payroll, in a story […]

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