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8 Apr

If you don’t have something nice to say…

…then you can just say it in online comments sections. In this article for the online edition of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Laura Janecka and Eve Tobolka look at […]

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7 Apr

CanWest reprieve redux

Canwest Global Communications Corp was again given some breathing room by its lenders, who agreed Tuesday to extend talks on the company’s financial crisis until April 21, and also “to […]

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7 Apr

Adbusters 1; CBC/Global 0

A decision by the British Columbia Court of Appeal gives Adbusters the right to sue broadcasters CBC and CanWest Global for refusing to screen its anti-consumerist television ads. The long-running […]

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7 Apr

Police camera seizures

UPDATE April 8: The BC Civil Liberties Association thanked the Chief of the Vancouver Police Department for moving to clarify police policy around seizing cameras from the public and forapologizing […]

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7 Apr

UPDATED: Tyee asking for donations to fund election reporting

[NOTE: this post has been updated] The Tyee, a popular B.C. online news site, is asking readers for donations to help pay for more reporters to cover the upcoming provincial […]

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7 Apr

Re-imagining journalism

The online magazine The Tyee is running a series on journalism by Steve Anderson, coordinator of Canadians for Democratic Media and the Stop the Big Media Takeover campaign. Anderson’s first […]

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6 Apr

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: A J-Source prize giveaway

[UPDATE] And the winners are: Thanks to everyone who commented on J-Source about their favourite documentary films. Juan Gomez, who suggested Bukowski: Born Into This, is the winner of 2 […]

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6 Apr

Ten experts on the future of the print newspaper

Presstime, the Newspaper Association of America’s flagship publication, gathered ten experts from inside and outside the newspaper business to discuss their ideas for reinventing the print newspaper. Participants include former […]

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6 Apr

Vancouver police seize journalist’s camera

Vancouver police roughed up a photographer with the Province newspaper and briefly confiscated his camera on the weekend. Jason Payne had been photographing the police take-down — and non-fatal shooting […]

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6 Apr

Robert Fulford’s ode to the Internet

“Like nearly everyone else, newspaper columnists have had their lives altered by the Internet,” writes the National Post‘s Robert Fulford in a recent column. Fulford writes about the comment threads […]

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