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7 Feb

Censorship of a “journalist” — or routine border patrol?

Activists issued a press release about how 20-year-old Martin Macias Jr., an American on his way to join a protest planned against the 2010 Olympic Games this week, was refused […]

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7 Feb

Ottawa newsroom, archives, lost in CTV fire

A fire Sunday destroyed CTV’s Ottawa newsroom, at the station CJOH, said many reports. The cause, and how local broadcasts would be affected, was uncertain Sunday. “Among the devastating property […]

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5 Feb

Arianna Huffington: pirate publisher or saviour of newspapers?

“A few years ago, Arianna Huffington, a 59-year-old immigrant from Greece, secured millions of dollars of other people’s money to launch an internet newspaper modestly called the Huffington Post,” writes […]

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4 Feb

Information not free in British Columbia: report

The government of British Columbia breaks its own law on meeting freedom of information requests nearly half the time, reports a study (pdf) submitted to a legislature committee reviewing the […]

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4 Feb

How a top athlete was snubbed while journalists carried the torch

Journalists shouldn’t carry the Olympic torch, writes former Globe and Mail sports columnist William Houston, especially when media personalities like Ben Mulroney and Sandie Rinaldo take spots away from great […]

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4 Feb

Olympic criticism by outsiders hard to bear

A Globe and Mail columnist takes umbrage with how some foreign media portray Vancouver’s Olympics. Gary Mason targets two stories in particular. A Guardian piece headlined “Vancouver’s Olympics head for […]

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2 Feb

The real “climategate” scandal isn’t scientific, it’s journalistic

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Chris Wood" border="0" hspace="8" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/CWoodHedshot.jpg" style="width: 55px; height: 75px;" title="Chris Wood" />During "climategate" some of the declarations made under prominent bylines demonstrated professional negligence, writes </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chris Wood</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, who thinks reporters concealed the truth and practised dishonest journalism.</span><br />

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1 Feb

Ottawa releases pictures of data to ATI requesters

Journalists have been making requests for electronic data to federal departments for a good decade and a half. And while the fights have sometimes been long, such as the CBC’s battle […]

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28 Jan

Is Apple’s iPad “underwhelming” or “a game changer”?

After a whole lot of hype about Apple’s newest “creation,” the company launched the iPad yesterday in San Francisco. Even before the existence of the device had been confirmed, enthusiastic […]

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27 Jan

Q media panel debates Haiti coverage

A media panel gathered on CBC Radio’s Q, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, debated whether the coverage of the earthquake in Haiti has been “verging on ‘disaster porn’.” The panelists were […]

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