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21 Dec

Gazette calculates its carbon footprint

The Montreal Gazette has published a groundbreaking assessment of its own impact on the environment, Editor & Publisher reports. The newspaper hired a Toronto company to look at such areas as […]

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20 Dec

Media figures honoured

Ottawa TV anchor Max Keeping and former TV executive Peter Herrndorf are among those named to the Order of Ontario, Canoe.ca reports via Canadian Press. Former Globe and Mail editor-in-chief […]

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18 Dec

64 journalists killed this year

The Committee to Protect Journalists says the year just ending has been the deadliest for journalists in more than a decade, Reuters reports. The U.S.-based committee said the 64 deaths […]

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17 Dec

Radler gets 29-month jail term

David Radler, Conrad Black’s one-time employee, was sentenced to less than half the prison time Black is facing, Canoe.ca reports. Radler, who testified against the former media mogul on fraud […]

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17 Dec

Quebecor has new CEO

(CP) Wes Lucas has quit as chief executive of struggling commercial printer Quebecor World Inc. “to pursue other opportunities” in the United States and will be replaced by CFO Jacques […]

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17 Dec

CAJ extends fellowship deadline

The Canadian Association of Journalists is extending the closing date of the CAJ/CIDA Fellowship call for entries to December 30, 2007. All applications should be postmarked that date or before. […]

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14 Dec

Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal

News Corp. ratified its $5.6 billion acquisition of The Wall Street Journal, putting its CEO-Chairman Rupert Murdoch in charge of the venerable newspaper. The deal puts an end to more […]

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7 Dec

Russian journalist ordered freed

A Russian court has ordered the release of a journalist held in a psychiatric institution for nine months, the International Herald Tribune reports. Andrei Novikov was arrested after he wrote […]

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4 Dec

Canadian to lead Wikimedia

Canadian journalist Sue Gardner has been named executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, CBC reports. Wikimedia is the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia, among other endeavours. Gardner was senior director […]

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3 Dec

Photographers heading to Rwanda

A team of Canadian photojournalists plans to document Rwandan struggles with HIV and AIDS through a project called Photosensitive, the Toronto Star reports. The six photographers, who will also share […]

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