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6 Dec

Beating the messengers?

The BBC is investigating the possibility that three of its journalists beaten up in Moscow had been deliberately targeted because of their work for the corporation, reported the Guardian. A […]

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6 Dec

Jailing the messengers

The Committee to Protect Journalists, which conducts an annual Dec. 1 census, found one in six journalists are held without charges and an overall decline, with China still the leading […]

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6 Dec

Poll suggests Canadians want local media ownership

A majority of Canadians oppose foreign ownership of the media, telephone and cable firms, and believe the government should play a role in preserving Canada’s cultural identity distinct from the […]

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6 Dec

BBC apology for Muhammad dog joke

The BBC was forced to broadcast an on-air apology after a local radio presenter in Nottingham joked that freed British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons had a dog named Muhammad. Here’s the […]

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6 Dec

Maclean’s newsmaker: “Conrad”

Maclean’s named former media mogul Conrad Black as its Newsmaker of the Year. From the press release:      “Even if Canadians think Conrad Black is getting everything he deserves, one […]

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4 Dec

Associated Press reorganizing

After a decade of watching newspapers and rival wire services shrink, The Associated Press, the 161-year-old news cooperative, is refitting itself to handle the 24-hour news cycle it helped create, […]

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4 Dec

No public right to know

The judge hearing a political corruption case in British Columbia approved a prosecutor’s application for an in-camera session as part of the pre-trial process, reported the Canadian Press: “Justice Elizabeth […]

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4 Dec

Court-ordered CBC programming?

A judge in the Northwest Territories seems to think the courts have the ability to order CBC programming: a court ordered a CBC Radio broadcaster to air a program on […]

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3 Dec

On suing Maclean’s

Maclean’s recently published an excerpt from a 2006 book  by Mark Steyn entitled, “The future belongs to Islam.” On Dec. 4, the Canadian Islamic Congress will hold a press conference to […]

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30 Nov

NYT ed: “Loss of faith” jeopardizing newspapers

The Guardian has printed the full text of the 2007 Hugo Young Memorial Lecture that New York Times executive editor Bill Keller gave at Chatham House. In it, Keller attributes the beleaguered state of the […]

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