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21 Jan

One on one with a Burmese child-soldier

“In a Burmese border town cafe, in the midst of a military crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, a recently-fled child-soldier sat with me, talking about cell phones and girls,” begins Kendyl […]

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21 Jan

CRTC ruling reaction

There’s been a mixed reaction to the CRTC’s January 15 ruling on media ownership. Initially, the CBC reported it as a victory, as Deb Jones notes in an early Town Hall blog entry. […]

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21 Jan

Informer est-il encore d’intérêt public?

Un colloque organisé par la fédération internationale des communications, mediaetdemocratie.blogspot.com | Le paysage médiatique a subi, au cours des dernières années, des transformations majeures. Pour le meilleur ou pour le […]

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21 Jan

TF1 | Les dessous du premier JT de France

Anaëlle Verzaux, Bakchich.info | Il paraît que le boulot des journalistes, c’est d’informer. Le public, lui, y croit de moins en moins. Selon un sondage TNS-Sofres (publié dans La Croix) […]

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21 Jan

Advice for journalists-cum-managers

In a Poynter Leading Lines column called “How to create a page-turning newsroom”, Butch Ward offers great advice to journalists who have been recently promoted to management positions. He describes […]

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19 Jan

Bans on the run

By Dean JobbMore than a dozen Ontario men are accused of plotting bombings and other terrorist attacks, including a threat to behead the prime minister. An Edmonton man who pleaded […]

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19 Jan

Star, union reach tentative agreement

The Toronto Star has reached a tentative agreement with unionized staff, averting a strike, the Star reports. Details of the pact will not be released until workers have a chance […]

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18 Jan

Le Conseil de presse part en tournée

Patrick Bellerose, Infopresse | Le Conseil de presse entreprend une tournée du Québec afin de “prendre le pouls du public et des organismes socioéconomiques sur la santé de l’information”. Selon un communiqué […]

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18 Jan

Documentary filmmaker freed in Iran

A doctoral student at the University of Quebec in Montreal has been allowed to leave Iran after being detained for almost a year, the Gazette reports. Mehrnoushe Solouki, a French-Iranian […]

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17 Jan

Upholding “blasphemy”

A journalist who wrote about the role of women in Afghanistan, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, remains in jail on charges of blasphemy and defaming Islam while a Council of Mullahs says […]

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