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5 Sep

Cuts will mean less local coverage of election, says Murdoch

Canada’s largest media union, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada is concerned that the slashing of jobs at media outlets across the country will mean a reduction in […]

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5 Sep

CanWest stock woes

Reported the Globe’s Report on Business: “The struggling stock of CanWest Global Communications Corp. [CGS-T] is poised to suffer another blow – deletion from Canada’s benchmark stock index.” The Globe noted […]

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3 Sep

Greens and the election debate

It’s no surprise that now the Greens are threatening legal action to be included in any leaders debates in the future national election. Greens argue that the rules of debate […]

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3 Sep

Kilian’s list of blogs for election addicts

B.C. online magazine The Tyee recently enlisted political junkie and blogger Crawford Kilian to list the blogs he reads to keep up on election news. Kilian covers U.S. and Canadian […]

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2 Sep

Democracy Now! host arrested

Amy Goodman, host of U.S. radio program Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 1, along with two producers from the show, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole […]

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28 Aug

Bloggers out in full force at DNC

More than 500 blogs were accredited to cover the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week, according to a Globe and Mail report. And a whole slew of them have […]

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28 Aug

J-Source on the web

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21 Aug

Why Blatchford won’t blog

Admits Christie Blatchford in a Globe and Mail column titled, I’m not blogging this, mark my words: “I have written some astonishingly banal columns in my life, and some very […]

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19 Aug

Journalists need to become news integrators

As Alan Bass reports in Findings, a recent Pew survey shows the trend in news consumption is integration — culling news from various sources and formats. The seemingly simple solution […]

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14 Aug

News agency launched in St. John’s

A group of Newfoundland journalists has recently launched a new online news agency to service Newfoundland and Labrador. NL Press is a subscriber pay web site and media syndication service. […]

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