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3 May

Death threats to Canadian journalists

Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan writes on World Press Freedom Day about her first-hand knowledge of death threats to journalists in Canada: “I was still startled two months ago to […]

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2 May

How China censors the Internet

“How do (China’s) communist sentinels of cyberspace manage to control the information flow so precisely?” asks der Spiegel — and answers its own question, in depth. An excerpt from How […]

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2 May

Canada oasis of press rights in hostile world: Kothawala

Anne Kothawala, President and CEO of the Canadian Newspaper Association, has some thoughts about freedom of expression in Canada and the world, published in the Globe and Mail to mark […]

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2 May

Predators of press freedom

For World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Reporters Without Borders has issued its new list of the “predators of press freedom.” They are, says RSF, “men and women who […]

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30 Apr

WSJ scandal

Dean Starkman writes of the mayhem at the once-respected Wall Street Journal caused by the resignation of its editor and the ineffectiveness of a committee set up to protect the […]

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29 Apr

Press Freedom lessening, says Freedom House

The world is an increasingly hostile place for journalists. Freedom House released Freedom of the Press 2008: A Global Survey of Media Independence in advance of World Press Freedom Day […]

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29 Apr

National Magazine Awards

Nominations this year from the National Magazine Awards Foundation are led by the Walrus followed by Toronto Life, Maclean’s, Report on Business, L’actualité, and explore.  Finalists for Magazine of the […]

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28 Apr

Newspaper axes print, lives on via Internet

Reports the New York Times: With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print […]

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28 Apr

Ethnic media

The April edition of Policy Options has an interesting piece by SFU communications researcher Catherine Murray, about Canada’s ethnic media. Murray discusses in part, the emergence of “multiple solitudes.” From […]

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27 Apr

Strobe-light journalism

Elizabeth Edwards, whose husband John Edwards was a contender in the U.S. Democratic primaries for the presidential election, assesses the state of American journalism and finds it wanting. But much […]

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