Archive
5 Dec

Wall Street Journal Shrinks

The Wall Street Journal is cutting back its newsroom, including closing its Canadian bureaus. The paper layed off four full time reporters and two part-timers in Canada. The move comes […]

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4 Dec

New national photojournalism awards competition

Canada’s news photographers associations are merging to form a national organization, and with it comes a new national photojournalism awards competition. A news release posted at the Canadian Journalist blog […]

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4 Dec

Gannett goes hyper local on the Web

Gannett newspapers are trying a radical experiment, equipping reporters with the latest technology and focusing on the web first and the newspaper second. Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post examines […]

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1 Dec

CBC to replace Canada Now with multi-platform news

Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias reports about CBC-TV’s plans to revamp its delivery of early evening news to integrate TV, radio and web resources. But first she passes along some […]

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1 Dec

WSJ closing Canadian bureaus

The Wall Street Journal is closing all of its Canadian bureaus — in Montreal, Toronto and Calgary, the Globe and Mail reports. Maclean’s followed up with a broader story about […]

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30 Nov

Attempt to get access to writer’s material opposed

Two organizations are protesting a Crown attempt to get access to the research a writer compiled in writing a book about a Toronto murder case, the Globe and Mail reports. […]

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29 Nov

News anchor remembered as a pioneer

Former CBC-TV news anchorLarry Henderson, who died at 89 in London, Ont., on Monday, is remembered as someone who “embedded thenotion of the anchor in people’s minds.” In a story […]

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28 Nov

News media call Iraq conflict civil war

In his blog, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post pulls together some of the context around the decision by some major U.S. media outlets to use the term civil war […]

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28 Nov

Knight named head of St. Joseph Media

Douglas Knight, former publisher of the Financial Post and the Toronto Sun, has been appointed president of St. Joseph Media, which publishes such magazines as Toronto Life, Quill & Quire […]

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27 Nov

N.B. blogger acquitted

A judge ruled that New Brunswick blogger Charles LeBlanc was doing nothing wrong when he was arrested outside a Saint John conference centre during a protest last June. LeBlanc, a […]

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