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11 Oct

Lockout highlights danger of media concentration

In this opinion piece for rabble.ca, Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, links the April 2007 lockout of le Journal staff to policies stemming from Sun Media newsroom consolidations.

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11 Oct

Torstar CEO criticizes Tyee story

This dust-up with the Tyee and writer Robert Pritchard and subsequent comments is really pretty interesting stuff and speaks volumes on the issue of media concentration and the strange and […]

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20 Sep

Media concentration

Some excerpts of recent stories about this week’s CRTC hearings: Federal broadcast regulators revealed anxieties over delving into journalistic standards and independence as they heard complaints from unions on Wednesday […]

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18 Sep

Bell, Quebecor protest CRTC regulations

Bell Canada Inc. says the CRTC should consider guidelines, as opposed to formal rules, in an effort to ensure diversity of Canadian programming. The proposal came during the second day of […]

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17 Sep

Media concentration too high: CBC

“The level of consolidation in the Canadian media industry has reached levels that “in any other country would be considered unacceptable,” Canada’s public broadcaster told regulators Monday at the start […]

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29 Jul

New media and the CRTC

Kelly Toughill, a journalism professor at King’s College, questions whether two upcoming reports commissioned by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on their policies and a series of hearings on […]

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14 Jul

Massive media coverage of Black verdict

A Canadian Press story by Merito Ilo takes a look at the international media coverage of Conrad Black’s conviction, noting that “stories published Saturday in the U.S., British and Canadian […]

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13 Jul

Group demands real media choices for Canadians

A campaign was launched today to get Canadians involved in decisions about the future of the country’s media landscape. Canadians for Democratic Media is urging people to send a message […]

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9 Jul

Murdoch and the WSJ

Ken Auletta takes an in-depth look at the takeover attempt of the WSJ by Rupert Murdoch — which seems to be proceeding like a juggernaut — and how Murdoch keeps […]

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9 Jul

Osprey board OKs Quebecor bid

After Quebecor made a last-minute increase in its offer for Osprey shares, the Osprey board of trustees approved the bid, CanWest News Service reports. The new offer came after a […]

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