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22 Oct

Book Review: Gene Allen’s Making National News cements the influential but little-known role Canadian Press played as a significant cultural force

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Making National News_0.JPG" title="" />Gene Allen | <em>Making National News: A History of Canadian Press</em> | University of Toronto Press | Paperback: $34.95</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Catherine McKercher</strong></p>

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7 Oct

Book Review: Guerilla Nation brings to life the challenges faced by the first western journalist reporting from North Vietnam

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Guerille Nation_0.JPG" title="" />Michael Maclear | Guerilla Nation | Dundurn | Paperback $19.99</p><p><strong>Reviewed by David Common, host of CBC’s <em>World Report</em></strong></p>

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24 Sep

Book Review: Amanda Lindhout’s A House in the Sky came at too high a cost

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/House in Sky.JPG" title="" /></p><p>Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett | <em>A</em><em> House in the Sky</em> | Simon & Schuster Canada | Hardcover: $29.99</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Stephen Puddicombe, CBC national reporter and King’s journalism professor</strong></p><p>Amanda Lindhout had her dream come true at a very high cost.</p>

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5 Jun

Book review: Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis: Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/EllisBook_2.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>In her new book, University of Alberta professor Patricia Demers examines the legacy of Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten agricultural reporter from the Prairies who refused to be confined to the "women's pages." J-Source Agricultural Editor Mary Baxter writes Demers should be lauded for her eye-opening book. </em></p>

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16 May

Review: A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="20" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/ayed_thousandfarewells_pb.jpg" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><em>Two years after covering the Arab Spring, CBC reporter Nahlah Ayed's memoir has been released in paperback with a new epilogue chronicling the civil war in Syria and her return to Tahrir Square. A Thousand Farewells offers a valuable perspective for journalists.</em></p>

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9 May

“When the public broadcaster is in peril” – An excerpt from Wade Rowland’s book Saving the CBC

<p><em>"As “the mother corp” faces the potential loss of broadcast rights for Hockey Night in Canada, veteran broadcaster and media strategist <a href="http://www.waderowland.com/">Wade Rowland</a> argues we have less than two years to find a way to save CBC/Radio-Canada: the cornerstone of Canadian culture and an institution many regard as the glue that holds the country together."</em></p>

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29 Jan

eBook review: Cool Heads at Kingston Pen

<p>Review: Ron Haggart (author); Kelly Haggart (editor), <em><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Cool-Heads-Kingston-Pen-ebook/dp/B00A731ZBS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359654197&sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cool Heads at Kingston Pen</a> </em>(ebook), <a href="http://houseofhaggart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Haggart</a> (2012)</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Grant Buckler</strong></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/cool heads.PNG" title="" /></p>

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21 Jan

Book review: Canadian Television: Text and Context

<p>Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson, eds., <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Television-Context-Marian-Bredin/dp/1554583616" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Canadian Television: Text and Context</em> </a>(Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012)</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Michael Stamm</strong></p>

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5 Jul

Book Review: “Out of the Blue”

<p> </p><p><strong>Review by Peter Rehak</strong></p><p>“Out of the Blue” is self published. A cover illustration is available here:</p><p><a href="http://janwong.ca/outoftheblue.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://janwong.ca/outoftheblue.html</a></p><p>--------------------</p>

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25 Apr

Review: The Tower of Babble by Richard Stursberg

<p>Reviewed by <strong>Howard Bernstein</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>The Tower of Babble</em>, like Richard Stursberg, is a mass of contradictions. On the one hand Stursberg proves himself to be an incredibly astute observer of what was wrong with the CBC. Amazingly, he also comes across as a man whose bungled solutions to the CBC’s problems were in many cases wrongheaded - and worse - contradictory.</p>

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