Archive
30 Aug

CanWest Global Fellow named

Journalist Rita Deverell has been named the first CanWest Global Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Western News reports. Deverell will spend four months teaching a course and doing […]

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26 Aug

Report on Justice and the Media

A interesting new report from a panel investigating the status of justice and the media in Ontario is now on the website of the Ministry of the Attorney General.

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24 Aug

Juliet O’Neil Case before the courts

Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin weighs in on the case of Juliet O’Neil, the Ottawa Citizen reporter whose home and office were raided by the RCMP after she wrote […]

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19 Jun

Incoming Pulitzer chair Steiger wants more web in awards

Paul Steiger, incoming chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, says web-based journalism will be a priority for the new board. Joe Strupp writes in Editor & Publisher about Steiger’s comments […]

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13 Dec

Documentary director dies at 49

Lindalee Tracey is remembered in an obituary by Globe and Mail writer Sandra Martin.

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13 Dec

Middle East news station to broadcast in English

The Canadian Journalist blogs on Al-Jazeera’s launch of a new English-language channel scheduled for Nov.15, and the CRTC’s history with the network. Al-Jazeera is an all-news satellite TV station based […]

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13 Dec

Gannett modernizing local newsrooms for 24-hour news world

Gannett newspapers are revamping their local newsrooms to accommodate a 24-hour news cycle in which reporters will file text, sound, and video to varioius media platforms including paper, the web […]

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13 Dec

<i>Toronto Sun</i> struggles

Globe media reporter Grant Robertson details the declining fortunes of the Toronto Sun, once one of the fastest growing newspapers in Canada. Today, under owner Quebecor Inc., the tab is […]

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13 Dec

Journalism and communications scholar dies

Canada’s journalism and communications academic community has lost a distinguished scholar. Paul Attallah, a former associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, has died. Attallah, 54, served […]

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13 Dec

Halberstam dies in car crash

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, 73, died yesterday in a car accident in California. The New York Times reports that Halberstam was on his way to interview former football great […]

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