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28 Aug

The uncertain legacy of Ted Kennedy

BySusan Reisler Teddy Kennedy’s death did not surprise me – we knew he would soon succumb to his merciless brain cancer. But what did surprise me – as a former […]

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25 Aug

Wente and Dowd cell phone columns: Too close to call?

A column by The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente so closely resembles one written by The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd that at least one blog is suggesting she stole […]

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20 Aug

This hour has 90 minutes

A half-hour extension looks like a renaissance for the CBC suppertime news, writes Susan Newhook. But…As with many things CBC these days, there are a few buts. At first glance, […]

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28 Jul

First Cronkite, then the world

Former CBC producer and trainer Tim Knight remembers walking into Walter Cronkite’s CBS office in 1971 and asking him to help change the world. It’s 1971. Pictures of CBS stars, […]

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10 Jul

The details in reporting on life.and death

After watching the graphic video of the young Iranian Neda Agha-Soltan dying, The Toronto Star’s Lesley Ciarula Taylor questions how storytelling is changing and if spotting the telling details is […]

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9 Jun

“I can’t imagine a better job”: an interview with Joe Schlesinger

“I got into the news business because news was very important to my life. It started in school when I was 15 or 16 years old,” veteran Canadian reporter Joe […]

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9 Jun

News? Not in our backyard…

ByDon Sellar It’s a fact. Bedrock journalistic principles and news judgment can quickly fall by the wayside when media outlets or their corporate interests are in the news, especially in […]

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11 May

Inside the government’s message-making machine

ByDenise RudnickiNo reporter wants to be called a stenographer. There’s nothing about that label that appeals to the journalistic imagination, which prefers the image of political reporters as a motley […]

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31 Mar

If online comments cost too much, shut them down

ByPeter Gorrie Newspapers emphasize free expression and respectful, constructive dialogue when asked why they invite comments about online stories. The opportunity to post also “engages” readers, they say. Which translates as: […]

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31 Mar

Getting behind political spin

By Jaime Watt & Dan Robertson Too often in politics, the relationship between those in public life and the journalists who cover them is one which is confrontational and tempestuous.  […]

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