Archive
30 Jan

Canwest sues Tyee and columnist

Canwest is suing Vancouver-based online publication The Tyee and columnist Raif Mair for libel. At issue is a Mair column published by the Tyee on Dec. 24 that Canwest claims […]

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21 Jan

Quebecor World latest victim of industry woes

Quebecor World Inc. has obtained creditor protection in Quebec, reported CBC. The company, with Quebecor as its largest shareholder, has been struggling and recently posted a $315-million quarterly loss, cancelled […]

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21 Jan

CBC reporter reassigned after Tories complain

CBC releases response to Conservative Party of Canada complaint         TORONTO, Jan. 21 /CNW/ – CBC News today released the following letter:         Doug Finley,         Director […]

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17 Jan

Upholding “blasphemy”

A journalist who wrote about the role of women in Afghanistan, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, remains in jail on charges of blasphemy and defaming Islam while a Council of Mullahs says […]

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16 Jan

Climate change and U.S. politics

“Where is the press?” asks Carl Pope in the Huffington Post, about media coverage of American electoral politics. “How can it be that, out of 2,679 questions asked of the […]

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15 Jan

CRTC deals with media concentration

It’s about time. Canada’s federal broadcasting regulator is imposing tighter rules on media ownership, reported the CBC. “The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications   Commission said Tuesday thata single company or […]

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14 Jan

Alberta J Job reality check …not cheque

On the Canadian Association of Journalists discussion forum a young journalist from the UK inquired about getting a journalism job in Alberta. I couldn’t help but give her a little […]

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9 Jan

Voters and the Press: Who’s in Charge?

If you watched early evening cable news coverage of last night’s New Hampshire primary, you may have witnessed the appalling (or perhaps amusing, depending on your perspective) spectacle of Fox […]

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4 Jan

How the magic wand would fix newsrooms

Steve Outing at E&P reached out to his news industry colleagues and asked them: If I could wave my magic wand, what would you have me do with it on your […]

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2 Jan

2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist

If you’re still not sure what LinkedIn, Twitter, RSS, Digg and/or SMS mean, this is must-reading for journalists and non-journalists alike. Howard Owens, director of digital publishing at US publishing […]

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