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25 Apr

NYT bracing for mass layoffs

Staff at the New York Times is bracing for as many as 30 layoffs in the next 10 days, reports the New York Post. NYT Executive Editor William Keller had […]

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23 Apr

Radio-Canada tapes seized

Montreal police, armed with a search warrant, have seized riot reports that aired on Radio-Canada after a Canadiens game Monday night, CBC reports. The police also asked for raw footage of the […]

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23 Apr

Rangers left-winger to intern at Vogue

Sean Avery, the feisty New York Rangers player who just helped his team advance in the NHL playoffs, will be an unpaid intern at Vogue magazine this summer, ABC News […]

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22 Apr

Six nominated for Michener

A joint entry by The Globe and Mail and the CBC is among six finalists for the 2007 Michener Award for meritorious public journalism. The other finalists are Le Devoir, […]

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22 Apr

WSJ editor expected to resign

Four months after Rupert Murdoch took over the Wall Street Journal, its top editor is expected to step down, the New York Times reports. Marcus Brauchli has been in the […]

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21 Apr

Israel to probe journalist’s death

The Israeli army will investigate how a cameraman for the Reuters news agency died in Gaza, the Associated Press reports. Fadel Shana was filming an Israeli tank when he was […]

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18 Apr

New UAE paper launches

The National, the newspaper helmed by ex-Daily Telegraph editor Martin Newland based in Abu Dhabi, hit newsstands on April 17. The paper boasts a staff of 200 reporters and editors, drawn from acclaimed newspapers […]

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18 Apr

Torstar cuts 160 positions

Torstar Corp. announced yesterday that it is reducing its workforce by 160 positions in a bid to restructure its newspaper division. The company said about 122 people are taking voluntary […]

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17 Apr

Thomson Reuters makes grand entrance

Thomson officially completes its takeover of Reuters today, and unveils its new logo with flashy displays in New York’s Times Square, and wall-to-wall ads in Toronto and London subway stations. […]

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16 Apr

Net neutrality

 Bell Canada says it is downgrading the Internet services of bandwidth hogs, and is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to toss out a landmark complaint by competitors. Reports […]

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