Archive
6 Nov

What’s missing in the media?

The organizers of Toronto Media Democracy Day: What’s Missing in the Media put together a video asking Canadians what they feel is missing in today’s media. Toronto’s Media Democracy Day […]

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4 Nov

Religious dialogue censored

This week’s edition of L’Express International was banned by Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco for having “offended Islam.” Associated Press quoted an anonymous official who said Algeria banned the magazine because […]

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4 Nov

“Little paper that could” folds

By Kim Kierans The “little paper that could” is out of business. Last week the Carleton FreePress in Woodstock, NB published its last issue. For the past year the FreePress […]

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4 Nov

Poetry, TV news and the U.S. election

CTV News closed their newscast last night with a witty, clever, informative and entertaining story on the U.S. election by CTV’s LA bureau chief Tom Walters. It’s poetry – literally; […]

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1 Nov

Online credibility

Toronto Star public editor Kathy English wrote of the Toronto Star‘s recent move to axe pseudonymous online comments alongside signed letters in its online Web Forum: “I would prefer the […]

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1 Nov

Media Matters

The New York Times ponders whether Media Matters has made a difference in the current American election by intimidating some reporters or commentators, or forcing a change in the tone […]

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31 Oct

Radio station hires Couillard

Montreal radio station CJAD has hired Julie Couillard as a regular on-air commentator. Couillard made headlines earlier this year with a political scandal involving her ex-boyfriend, former foreign affairs minister […]

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31 Oct

Live blogging “The Media’s Right to Offend: Exploring the Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech”

Live Blog: “The Media’s Right to Offend: Exploring the Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech”Hate speech. Offensive speech. Free speech. Where do we draw the line? Where should we […]

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30 Oct

Covering aboriginal peoples

    Aboriginal People’s Television Network asked in an episode of its program Contact, “Is the mainstream media part of the problem?”     Said the online intro: “Kelly Morrisseau was a […]

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30 Oct

Local news boost

A ruling by the  the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission includes provision for a new fund to support local news programming in markets under one million people, with cable and […]

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