Archive
31 Aug

No boost for community TV

This past week the CRTC has been under fire for a “paternalistic” new policy on community television. OpenMedia declared the CRTC failed to make history at an opportune moment. Groups […]

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24 Aug

Breaking the silence on Pakistan

In Pakistan, a disaster of epic proportions has unfolded. The Times of India reports it will take years for the country to recover. Yet media coverage has been relatively muted. […]

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17 Aug

Stursberg: loved and loathed

Seems CBC head of English programming Richard Stursberg ruffled a lot of feathers during his six-year tenure. He was hired in 2004 as new blood to “shake the damn place […]

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3 Aug

Documents in the raw undermine propaganda

While the leaking of Afghan war documents has been criticized in some Canadian columns, on the pages of J-Source WikiLeaks is described as citizen journalism we need and a new […]

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27 Jul

Census debates

The Canadian Association of Journalists has waded into the census debate, telling the government, “Don’t slash our census.” Indeed, Statistics Canada data has long occupied a spot in J-Source’s resource […]

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20 Jul

G20 reports of media repression keep coming in

After the G20 folded its tent, first-hand accounts of media repression have continued being posted on J-Source.  In ‘Access Denied,’ reporter Jesse Freeston describes being beaten by police. In the […]

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12 Jul

Doctoring the image

Last week The Economist admitted to doctoring a photo of Obama, using the argument that it’s all part of the art of the cover. It’s another puzzler in the debate […]

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6 Jul

Accountability in crisis

The motto of the Canadian Journalism Foundation is “as journalism goes, so goes democracy.” You could add “so goes accountability.” We see accountability take a backseat with BP’s staid denial […]

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29 Jun

Fence holds up, rights not quite so sturdy

Ah, civil liberties. So long fought for, so quickly dispensed with. Throughout the week, J-Source worked hard to keep up with reports of police actions against journalists during the G20/8 […]

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22 Jun

G8 outside the gate

As journalists trek toward the G8/20 Summit, it may be hard to muster excitement for another round of unmet aid pledges and quickly forgotten PR moments for the hosts. Outside […]

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