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22 Oct

Toronto Star series wins ONA award

The Toronto Star series Lost in Migration won the Online Journalism Association award in the service journalism (large media) category. The award was presented at a banquet in Toronto on October 19 that […]

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22 Oct

Sun columnist wins award for sex-abuse story

Sun Media columnist Mark Bonokoski has won the national Beyond Borders media award for an article that exposed ex-Toronto private school teacher John Inglis as a pedophile, reports CNews. Bonokoski began […]

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17 Oct

BBC plans major job cuts

The BBC is schedule to announce major job cuts – as many as 2,800 positions – many of which will affect news and factual departments, Reuters reports.

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16 Oct

Prime Minister denies media centre plans

The media has been filled with stories about the prime minister’s plans to construct a government-controlled media centre after the Toronto Star brok the story Monday. Today, the PMO denies […]

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14 Oct

Washington Post reporter killed in Iraq

Salih Saif Aldin, a correspondent for The Washington Post, was fatally shot Oct. 14 while reporting on violence in the Bagdhad neighbourhood of Sadiyah, reported the Associated Press. Aldin, 32, […]

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11 Oct

Star ends PDF edition

The Toronto Star has stopped offering a free downloadable PDF edition of the paper, Editor & Publisher reports. The Star’s editor-in-chief, Fred Kuntz, says the paper wants to focus more […]

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9 Oct

Seized tape returned to AP staffer

A videotape and memory card taken by U.S. soldiers from an Associated Press cameraman in Baghdad have been returned, AP reports. The items were taken from cameraman Ayad M. Abd Ali […]

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9 Oct

Print edition of Western Standard folds

The print edition of the Calgary-based conservative magazine The Western Standard has closed up shop, said its publisher yesterday. Ezra Levant said the four-year-old bastion of conservative politics in Western […]

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1 Oct

PQ leader, husband, launch suit against Gazette

CP reports that Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois and her husband have filed a $2-million lawsuit against the Montreal Gazette and reporter William Marsden over an article about the construction of […]

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28 Sep

Japanese journalist gunned down in Myanmar

National Press Photographers Association and CP report on the killing of Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai, 50, during protests in Myanmar. Graphic video evidence, featured in a report at Reuters UK, suggests Nagai […]

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