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23 Oct

Live blogging the relaunch of CBC’s The National

“It really feels like CNN three years ago, except everyone is standing up,” noted Howard Bernstein, one of our live bloggers during the big relaunch of CBC News. Read more […]

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23 Oct

News anchor 0–Seagull 1

“In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds, a giant seagull stole the show on the Channel Nine News in Melbourne,” reported Australian online news.com.au. “The massively […]

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23 Oct

Can Derek Webster save RD? The RRJ reports

Reader’s Digest Canada has over six million readers and an ambitious new editor hired from one of the country’s most daring small magazines. Ryerson Review of  Journalism reporter Matthew Halliday […]

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23 Oct

“I don’t like to watch” — Harper

The Toronto Star spun Stephen Harper’s alleged admission — “I don’t like to watch Canadian news” — into an entire column including reaction and confirmation about whether the prime minister […]

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23 Oct

Should journalists also boycott America’s Fox?

The American administration has declared a de facto war on Fox News, which White House officials argue is a political opponent and not a legitimate media organization. The White House […]

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23 Oct

CBC producers field phone call from Edmonton hostage-taker

When a man held a group of hostages at the Workers’ Compensation Board offices in Edmonton on Wednesday, a group of journalists in Edmonton faced a number of different journalistic, […]

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21 Oct

Top court weighs Canada’s press freedoms: Leblanc case

A case now being heard in the Supreme Court of Canada will determine the fate of whistleblowers — and will have a major impact on press freedoms in Canada. Lawyers […]

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21 Oct

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do

“Can vice save journalism?” asks Maureen Dowd. “We need life rafts,” she wrote in The New York Times. “Publications once buoyed by splashy ads evoking drinking and sex are now […]

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20 Oct

UBC Conference on health and environment

Registration closes Oct. 23 for a Nov. 6 science journalism conference in Vancouver. Health and Environment Reporting in a Connected World is a day-long event at the University of British […]

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20 Oct

David Olive’s “stubborn faith in newspapers”

Toronto Star business and current affairs columnist David Olive explains his “stubborn faith in newspapers” in a recent post to his Star blog Everybody’s Business. He outlines the reasons for […]

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