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5 Jun

CAJ stance in Maclean’s case questioned

J-Source contributing editor and Ryerson journalism professor John Miller applied to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal this week to be heard as an intervenor in the case against Maclean’s magazine […]

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4 Jun

Liveblogging the human rights case against Maclean’s

The case of Mohamed Elmasry vs. Mark Steyn/Maclean’s is before the  B.C. Human Rights Tribunal this week.  Andrew Coyne, national editor at Maclean’s and Alberta-based conservative activist Ezra Levant have […]

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3 Jun

2008 CAJ conference panels now online

CPAC recorded and aired two panels from the Canadian Association of Journalists national conference in Edmonton in May: “Talk Radio” and “Human Rights Commissions”. The panels can be viewed online […]

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28 May

Why Iraq vanished from the U.S. news

“Whatever happened to Iraq,” an analysis in the American Journalism Review, examines what it calls a “dramatic dropoff” in media coverage of the Iraq war. Among the main reasons cited […]

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27 May

CBC trashed by anonymous “single source”

Reports the Globe and Mail: “The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is behind an unprecedented flood of complaints to Canada’s information watchdog.“The latest annual report from Information Commissioner Robert Marleau says his […]

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27 May

APIng big media

A tidbit in a Guardian blog ponders a new trend — APIs — in big media. In the next few weeks, notes blogger Jemima Kiss, The New York Times API […]

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27 May

“Man bites dog” or, “China’s censors quiet”

Here’s a good-looking headline we don’t see every day: “Foreign journalists free to report on China quake”

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27 May

Invasion of the censors?

In the category of scary corporate big brotherism: “Germany was engulfed in a national furor over threats to privacy on Monday, after an admission by Deutsche Telekom that it had […]

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27 May

Newspaper industry vs journalism profession? Not.

Megan McArdle offers a succinct analysis of the transition from print to web in a piece posted at The Atlantic’s website. She accuses many “commentators on the changing media landscape […]

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24 May

CBC asking for more money

New CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix says the CBC needs $215-million more federal money as well as a seven-year funding plan, reported Sun Media. Speaking to a conference of the Academy […]

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