Archive
7 Apr

CBC to cut Calgary Newsworld

CBC News is shutting down the Calgary unit of its 24-hour Newsworld television service as of the end of May, and introducing additional positions for newsgathering, they told staff on April 3. […]

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7 Apr

Sask premier to sue CP over headline

(CP) Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has advised The Canadian Press he intends to sue the national news agency for defamation for a headline it ran on a story featuring controversial […]

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31 Mar

Cambodian “Killing Fields” survivor dead at 65

The Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape was the subject of the movie “The Killing Fields” is dead. Dith Pran died Sunday at a New Jersey […]

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28 Mar

U.S. anchor leaves Al-Jazeera

Dave Marash, an American journalist who once worked on ABC’s Nightline, has quit Al-Jazeera’s English network, the International Herald Tribune reports via an AP article. Marash said his decision was due […]

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27 Mar

Monks protest during journalists’ tour

Tibetan monks protesting a lack of religious freedom interrupted a tightly managed tour by foreign journalists in Lhasa, the Associated Press reports. The tour was meant to show that Lhasa was back […]

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25 Mar

RTNDA lifetime award winners

This year’s Lifetime Achievement award winners, announced in a press release by the Radio-Television News Directors’ Association of Canada, are:  Doug Collins; Vicki Gabereau; Vern Koop; Mike McCourt; Tom Young; […]

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25 Mar

Post to appeal ruling on confidential sources

The National Post reports that it is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on an Ontario appeal court decision that the Post had to relinquish a document received […]

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25 Mar

Probe into Russian journo’s death to be reopened

AP – Russian authorities are reopening a probe into the unexplained death of investigative journalist and parliamentary deputy Yuri Shchekochikhin in 2003. Shchekochikhin died after a brief, mysterious ailment that caused him […]

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25 Mar

Sun writer dies two weeks shy of 29th birthday

John Kryk — SUN Media, March 24, 3008: “This is a horribly sad day for the Toronto Sun entertainment department. After a courageous, 11-month battle for her life, staff writer […]

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25 Mar

Carleton BJ drops French requirement

Starting next year, Carleton will no longer require journalism undergrads to have a French credit if they can demonstrate proficiency in a different second language, reports the Charlatan. Canada’s commissioner […]

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