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24 Jun

Taboo topics welcomed on Twitter

There’s plenty of things we’re not supposed to discuss in polite conversation, but how about on Twitter? Between a live-blogged execution and details of rectal harpoons, you got to wonder: […]

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24 Jun

Wheres the graf, Politico?

A Politico story about the damaging quotes by General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone included two paragraphs that suggest freelance reporter Michael Hastings was a bigger “risk” to the Defence […]

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23 Jun

National Post column: Star disgraces memory of Aqsa Parvez

In a column for the National Post, author Tarek Fatah criticizes the Toronto Star for their coverage of the murder of Aqsa Parvez. Read the J-Source article about the press […]

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18 Jun

Was Toronto Life right?: D.B. Scott

On his Canadian Magazines blog, D.B. Scott looks at a controversial 2008 Toronto Life cover that depicts a sexy photo of Muslim teen Aqsa Parvez and suggests her death was […]

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15 Jun

Report: Covering disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Residents of Toronto’s poorest neighbourhoods sometimes accuse the media of only reporting bad news. Is this true? And if it is true, does this matter? A new study in the […]

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10 Jun

CBSC: no violation as abusive comments immediately disputed

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has released its decision on a listener complaint that morning radio program The Kid Carson Show aired content that was discriminatory against women by […]

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10 Jun

Climate change coverage: what’s a science journalist to do?

An overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed articles say that climate change is real, and manmade, and suggest we need to act now. But, in the name of balanced reporting, the press […]

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10 Jun

Op-ed: Ottawa’s information lockdown is bad for democracy

A group of journalism organizations have penned a joint editorial about Ottawa’s insidious information control, why it’s bad for democracy and what journalists should do about it. A few weeks […]

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10 Jun

Insider claims former CRTC president knew of corruption

A former Canadian broadcasting insider has claimed he has documents proving that CBC executive VP Richard Stursberg knew about a long-time case of corruption at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications […]

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9 Jun

Former Harper spokesperson to take over Quebecor’s Ottawa bureau

Kory Teneycke, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former communications director, will become head of Quebecor’s Parliment Hill bureau, Canwest reports, adding that he is “effectively overseeing coverage of a government for […]

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