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1 Aug

Harper and media control

Canadian Press reports that the RCMP is evicting journalists from a Charlottetown hotel lobby at the request of the Prime Minister’s Office. The federal Conservative party is holding its annual […]

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31 Jul

Annual report on Canadian broadcasting

The broadcasting industry is continuing to expand and new media are increasingly important to Canadians’ lives, said the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in its annual broadcasting report. Findings from […]

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31 Jul

Blogosphere at 10

In an essay in the Toronto Star, David Eaves and Taylor Owen explore the impact of blogging, which they contend reaches its 10th anniversary this month. “Blogging continues to be […]

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30 Jul

Helicopter deaths: shame

The news that four people died when two U.S. news helicopters collided last week was stultifying; the deaths seemed too pointless to even mention here.  Then I read Mark Hamilton’s […]

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30 Jul

“Citizen Journalist” site lands big financing deal

NowPublic Technologies Inc. calls itself the world’s largest participatory news network, with 100,000 non-professional contributing reporters from more than 140 countries and 3,600 cities,  and a partnership with Associated Press. […]

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30 Jul

Corrections we’d like to see

Norman Solomon at TomPaine.com has composed a series of mock corrections that describe the journalistic offenses many news organizations should really be regretting.

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29 Jul

Black was overdone by media, suggests poll

As a reader, my eyes started glazing over every time there was another headline about Conrad Black, and I turned off the radio or TV when the news turned to […]

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29 Jul

Even the Internet needs editors

Gary Kamiya, a writer-at-large for Salon, sings the largely unsung praises of newspaper editors. And the former editor argues the one medium that has traditionally resisted editors the most — the […]

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29 Jul

Sicko whets public’s appetite for muckraking journalism

Steven Winn, a movie critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, finds that the success of Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Sicko, is due in part to its muckraking style of journalism […]

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29 Jul

Papers weigh in on Black legal saga

The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Times, and the Telegraph give their take on the ongoing Conrad Black legal saga. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_canada0714jul14,0,2124790.story?coll=chi-business-hed http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/14/wblack314.xml http://business.guardian.co.uk/conradblacktrial/story/0,,2126333,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2072850.ece

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