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24 Apr

Globe’s Armstrong expelled from Chechnya

Globe and Mail reporter Jane Armstrong was arrested, fined and then expelled from Chechnya “on the grounds that she did not have proper accreditation,” said Reporters Without Borders. Noted a […]

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24 Apr

Magpie magazine store victim of media changes

The Magpie, the quirky east-side magazine store that became a sort-of Vancouver institution, is closing. A couple of excerpts from a piece in the Vancouver Sun that captures some of […]

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23 Apr

CanWest slammed for its lawsuit

An influential civil liberties group has slammed CanWest Global, the giant media company fond of using the law to squelch criticism of itself, for  an attempt to “to silence satirical […]

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22 Apr

Media criticized for health-coverage priorities

“Canadian media give inordinate coverage to health care issues and largely ignore the ‘non-medical’ determinants of health … This coverage is at odds with our research which shows that Canadians […]

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22 Apr

Credibility gap

As details emerge in the story of Allan Schoenborn, a suspect in the slaying of his three children in Merritt, B.C., the initial coverage of the case  looks more and […]

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22 Apr

Motto for journalism in six words or less

Poynter.org is running a contest to come up with a motto for journalism. The contest was inspired by a similar one run by Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of “Freakonomics,” in […]

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20 Apr

Pictures of the year

Here are the winners of the National Pictures Of The Year Awards by the News Photographers Association of Canada, a volunteer-run,non-profit association of professional and student photojournalists. The association says […]

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17 Apr

U.S. based Audit Bureau loses Canadian members

What does the latest kerfuffle involving the Audit Bureau of Circulations mean? The Financial Post reports that three of Canada’s large newspaper publishers —  Torstar Sun Media and Transcontinental — […]

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17 Apr

TorStar cuts jobs

Torstar Corp., owner of the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest-circulation daily, said in a press release that it will cut 160 jobs in its newspaper division. A report by Reuters said […]

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14 Apr

Blurred lines: opinion or reporting

The New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt takes aim at the blurring of lines between opinion, analysis and reporting — an issue that I think is critical for the […]

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