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16 Apr

CAJ award finalists announced

The Canadian Association of Journalists has announced the finalists for its annual awards for outstanding investigative journalism in Canada for 2007. Congratulations to J-Source editors Rob Cribb, David Hutton, Mary Baxter, […]

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14 Apr

Newseum now open

The Newseum, a museum about journalism and the U.S. First Amendment, celebrated its grand opening April 11, AP reports.

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11 Apr

RTNDA prez fires back at BC mayor

RTNDA president Bob McLaughlin is firing back at the mayor of Merritt, B.C., following his suggestion that out-of-town media should leave the Interior ranching community. McLaughlin, manager of a Toronto-area […]

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11 Apr

Robbins new Spec publisher

Dana Robbins, at one time the editor-in-chief of the Hamilton Spectator, will return as publisher, the paper reports. Robbins has been publisher of Grand River Media since 2006.

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10 Apr

U.S. delays freeing photographer

Despite an Iraqi judicial committee’s order that AP photographer Bilal Hussein be released from U.S. military custody in Baghdad, the military says it needs to do its own review first, […]

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9 Apr

Complaints against Maclean’s dismissed

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has decided not to proceed with complaints filed against Maclean’s magazine related to its publication of an article “The future belongs to Islam,” according to a […]

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9 Apr

Commission won’t hear Maclean’s complaints

The Ontario Human Rights Commission will not proceed with complaints against Maclean’s over an article about Islam. In its decision, the commission said the Ontario Human Rights Code did not give […]

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7 Apr

Post wins six Pulitzers

The Washington Post has won six Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service award and the national reporting award, the New York Times reports.

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7 Apr

Times reporter out on bail

Barry Bearak of the New York Times, who was detained while covering the election in Zimbabwe, has been freed on bail, the Times reports. Bearak was released to a clinic […]

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7 Apr

Journalists contemplating Beijing boycott

Following CBC Radio-Canada Director General Hubert Lacroix’s formal request for more press freedom in Beijing, other journalists are throwing their hats into the ring.

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