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22 Oct

The National wins best newscast Gemini

CBC’s The National picked up the Gemini award for best television newscast in a ceremony in Toronto on Oct. 20. The newscast anchored by Peter Mansbridge also took won for […]

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21 Oct

Scud stud launches another law suit

Former broadcaster Arthur Kent is suing Canwest Publishing and journalist Don Martin for defamation. According to a Globe and Mail report, Kent, also a Tory candidate in the last Alberta […]

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20 Oct

Two CBC foreign correspondents’ contracts not renewed

The CBC has confirmed that it has not renewed employment contracts for two veteran foreign correspondents, Patrick Brown and Don Murray, according to a report in The Globe and Mail. […]

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20 Oct

Free Press publisher says union statements false

On the seventh day of an employee strike at the Winnipeg Free Press, the paper’s publisher Bob Cox published a message to readers on winnipegfreepress.com. In his message, Cox said […]

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17 Oct

B.C. journalists awarded reporting fellowships

The B.C.-based Jack Webster Foundation has announced the five reporters chosen for its early 2009 Seeing the World Through New Eyes fellowship. This year’s fellowship, done in partnership with the […]

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17 Oct

Sports reporter honoured

Toronto Star sports reporter Randy Starkman has been awarded the 2008 Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Award. The award honours contributions to public education about causes, consequences and prevention of […]

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16 Oct

Striking Free Press staffers report on the web

Employees at the Winnipeg Free Press have been on strike for four days. But they are not sitting back just waiting to return to work. Instead, a team of reporters, […]

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16 Oct

CRTC to consider new media broadcasting regulation

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced plans for a review of whether or not new media broadcasting should be subject to federal regulation. According to a CRTC […]

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14 Oct

Free Press workers strike

At noon on Thanksgiving Monday Oct. 13, approximately 1000 staff members at the Winnipeg Free Press launched a strike action, reports CBC News. With the federal election results coming in […]

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10 Oct

Desperately seeking scabs

In the face of a possible employee strike at the Montreal Gazette, Canwest News Service has approached journalism students from Concordia University and offered them work on a temporary basis, […]

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