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15 Mar

Media coverage of climate change way down, federal scientists need permission to speak

“A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate-change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists […]

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14 Mar

Government opposes cameras in court

Last year, Manitoba’s justice minister said the introduction of cameras into courtrooms was an idea “whose time has come,” writes Cecil Rosner.  So why is the government arguing against cameras […]

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9 Mar

TV reporters must be jacks of all trades: Kurtz

Reporters who once arrived on the scene with a full camera crew are often expected to shoot and edit video themselves nowadays. Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz examines this […]

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5 Mar

Did Carleton j-prof argue against freedom of the press?

“It was strange reading the recent Citizen column by Klaus Pohle (“Presumptions of Guilt,” Feb. 24), because I could swear the Carleton University media law professor was arguing against freedom […]

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4 Mar

Leonard Asper resigns from Canwest

Leonard Asper resigned from debt-ridden Canwest,  the company announced today. Asper, the president and CEO along with other positions at one of Canada’s largest media companies, left “in order to pursue […]

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3 Mar

Refusing freebie gold medal hockey tickets just a part of the job

Anyone who works in journalism for more than 30 minutes realizes that there are potential conflicts of interest every time a journalist walks out the door, writes Frances Bula. Did […]

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1 Mar

European media’s verdict: Olympics 2010

The ending of the Olympics — with a record number of gold medals won by Canada, and a jubilant party that was largely problem-free — left some media critics” red-faced,” […]

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26 Feb

The Current: Has “critical journalism gone missing in action?”

CBC’s The Current looked at media coverage of the Games in Vancouver with a Feb. 26 segment that included a panel featuring CBC reporter Tom Harrington, Globe and Mail columnist […]

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26 Feb

Farewell Andy Barrie

Andy Barrie has been a household name for almost a generation of CBC listeners in Toronto. As of Monday March 1, he will be gone from the airwaves. After a […]

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26 Feb

Scientologists investigate journalists

Thirty years ago, The St. Petersburg Times newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Church of Scientology. The religious organization, which evidently considered the newspaper’s coverage unfair, recently […]

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