Archive
7 Nov

Memories of the Berlin Wall

Journalists recall covering Germany’s “9/11” — 20 years ago — when the Cold War that had seized the world for some two generations symbolically began to melt. Two decades ago […]

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5 Nov

Information gatherers vs. holders

A Globe and Mail political blog reports on the newspaper’s spat with Auditor-General Sheila Fraser, over the Globe’s excerpting of a chapter on immigration from her report. “The Globe referred […]

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5 Nov

Wells and Coyne to debate Afghan mission

Maclean’s national editor Andrew Coyne, senior columnist Paul Wells and Canada’s first resident ambassador to Afghanistan Chris Alexander are gathering in Halifax on Nov. 10 for a round table discussion […]

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4 Nov

Petition aimed at freeing Lindhout and Brennan

Nearly three weeks after a petition was begun to urge action in the kidnappings of Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, there are only 523 signatures. What gives? The online petition […]

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4 Nov

When the killers come

The next time I have a lousy work day, or despair about the state of journalism in Canada, I’m going to re-read this piece about José Rubén Zamora, editor of […]

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30 Oct

Journalists to carry the Olympic torch

In a news item title “Canada’s Olympic Storytellers to carry the flame,” CTVGlobemedia recently announced that journalists from the company (including CTV, TSN, RDS, Discovery Channel and The Globe and […]

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30 Oct

ROB mag on the downfall of Canwest

In “The day Leonard Asper lost the street,” Globe and Mail reporter Grant Robertson calls January 28, 2008 the day Asper “lost Bay Street.” Robertson writes: “Defenders of Leonard Asper […]

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29 Oct

Pregnant women, pandemics and politics

Susan Delacourt from the Toronto Star covers a bizarre bout of heckling and laughter Tuesday in the House of Commons as Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett (a physician and former public health minister) […]

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28 Oct

Wanna buy a typewriter?

A longtime journalist recently sent an email to a bunch of colleagues with notice of a typewriter for sale. The journalist sent along assurance that the machine works perfectly and […]

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28 Oct

Nieman guide to covering pandemic flu launched

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has launched a “comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.” The new website, Covering Pandemic Flu, is aimed specifically at journalists. The foundation […]

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