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    Another view of the new Globe

    Toronto freelance journalist, Nick Fillmore, has looked at the revamped Globe and Mail for a piece he’s written that appears on a website for social change. While he’s found coverage has improved in some areas, he fears its credibility and legacy as the ‘paper of record’ may be damaged due to it’s “apparent lack of…

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    Un publicitaire à la tête de la radio de Radio-Canada

    Le publicitaire Patrick Beauduin prendra la direction générale de la radio de Radio-Canada, a annoncé ce matin le vice-président principale des services français du réseau public, Sylvain Lafrance. Jusqu’à hier, il était vice-président principal créativité de Cossette Communication.

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    So this is the new Globe?

    Thanks to Ivor Shapiro for sending this: Search for Rob Ford on the Globe and Mail‘s web site and you get this link to a column printed in the Saturday Oct 15 Focus section: Rob Ford’s not popular despite being fat. He’s popular because of …Oct 15, 2010“Toronto municipal contender leads with his gut –…

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    Reporter sponsored Haiti kids because “I am a human being first.”

    Readers of the Toronto Star, inspired by the example of reporter Catherine Porter in sponsoring the education of three-year-old Lovely Avelus and of her cousin and friend, pitched in to send other Haitian students to school. The story is one of several told in “Lovely’s Haiti,” a Star series and multimedia project launched October 17.…

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    Chilean mine swarm: the taxi drivers did well

    The rescue of the Chilean miners became a ‘made for TV’ event, causing some journalists to ask: Have we gone too far? With some 2,000 reporters on the scene, it was only matter of time before journalists began reporting on journalists. At least the media swarm was good for local taxi drivers. And it did…

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    Le Buzz: Tout le monde en parle

    Chaque vendredi, «le Buzz» revient sur les trois textes qui ont attiré le plus votre attention en piochant dans nos tweets et nos articles sur la base de nos statistiques. Cette semaine, Tout le monde en parle rafle les deux premiers rangs de nos statistiques.

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    Les médias acteurs de la Crise dOctobre

    Pendant octobre 1970, les journalistes ont fait la lecture intégrale à l’antenne des communiqués du Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). Aucun traitement de l’information des communiqués n’était effectué. Or, c’était bien le but des militants du FLQ: faire parler d’eux et de leur cause, sans déformation de leur propos. De l’aveu même de l’ancien…