Archive
9 Sep

Challenge seeks to stop police posing as reporters

On September 3, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), the CBC and RTNDA Canada, the Association of Electronic Journalists, launched a Charter of Rights and Freedoms application to stop the […]

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7 Sep

Grievance journalism: restricted access inspires series

Three Victoria Times-Colonist journalists, frustrated by repeated delays in accessing public court documents, decided to conduct an experiment with the BC court system. What they found – that the public […]

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2 Sep

Why CBC reported on judge’s nude photo scandal

Today the CBC ran a story about Lori Douglas, a Manitoba family judge that is involved in a scandal over nude photos of her that were posted online. Further complicating […]

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2 Sep

Toronto Sun responds to plagiarism accusation

The hockey blogosphere has accused the Toronto Sun of plagiarism, calling the traditional media clueless when it comes to understanding new media. Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace responds.J-Source reported yesterday […]

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1 Sep

Hockey blog accuses Toronto Sun of plagiarism

The Toronto Sun has been accused of plagiarizing a Maple Leaf blog’s translation of an article written in Czech. UPDATE: Toronto Sun editor-in-chief James Wallace has written a reply to […]

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31 Aug

Access denied in BC’s open court system

Victoria Times Colonist reporters Louise Dickson, Lindsay Kines and Rob Shaw found case after case where B.C.’s courts routinely and wrongly deny access to information that should be available to […]

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21 Jul

Sierra Club files complaint against Canwest for oil advertorials

Sierra Club Canada has filed a complaint with Advertising Standards Canada, alleging that Canwest has been running advertising for Shell Canada disguised as news content. Marketing Magazine reports: “The complaint, […]

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14 Jul

Writers join forces to fight new copyright bill

Freelance journalists, poets, playwrights, translators and fiction and non-fiction book writers will join forces to protest Canada’s new copyright legislation, which they say could be devastating to the writing trade, […]

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14 Jul

Libel ruling a ‘blow to investigative journalism’

A libel ruling against the Times by a UK court of appeal has been called a blow to investigative journalism by media lawyers. The Guardian reports: “In a case brought […]

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13 Jul

The conduct of public inquiries

Whether its about G20, Air India or Mulroney-Schreiber, good, bad or indifferent public inquiries make news and reporters are sent to cover them, Peter Rehak writes. Yet, relatively little has […]

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