Farewell Andy Barrie
Andy Barrie has been a household name for almost a generation of CBC listeners in Toronto. As of Monday March 1, he will be gone …
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Scientologists investigate journalists
Thirty years ago, The St. Petersburg Times newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Church of Scientology. The religious organization, which evidently considered the newspaper’s coverage unfair, recently hired investigators to investigate, and then …
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Une formation pour diversifier les textes d’opinion
Les médias ne font pas assez de place aux voix féminines, aux discours savants des sciences humaines, aux activistes? Ou serait-ce que ces voix ne s’expriment pas assez fort ni assez souvent? Qu’à cela ne tienne, une formation sur mesure vise à favoriser la publication de textes d’opinion par ces « marginalisées » de l’espace…
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Dossier noir de l’information municipale
La question fait régulièrement l’objet de débats : l’information municipale se porte mal. La couverture des régions représente une partie du problème, la manière dont s’exerce cette couverture en est une autre. Potentats locaux, difficultés d’accès, liens viciés entre journalisme et relations publiques, la liste pourrait être longue et les anecdotes tout aussi croustillantes que…
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Deadly images
Conflict photographers explain their thinking behind their iconic shots in “The Shooting War,” a powerful photographic essay on the Foreign Policy web site.
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What they read
The Atlantic wondered: How do other people deal with the torrent of information? It asked Steve Coll, Nicholas Lemann, James Gibney, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Goldberg and Marc Ambinder, and dished up the details of their media diets at theAtlanticWire. What would a Canadian diet include?
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Broadcasters criticized by gay rights group
Broadcasters in Quebec and Australia are in hot water for on-air references to the sexual orientation of Olympic figure skaters. In Canada, a gay rights group wants a public apology from French-language broadcaster over comments about figure skater Johnny Weir, reported AP. The story added that Australia’s Channel Nine “reportedly received complaints from viewers after…
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When a story doesn’t pan out…
Journalist Judith Warner thought she had a great story to tell about the overmedication of American youth. And then her research undermined her premise…
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Toronto-based Tamil newspaper attacked
Uthayan, a weekly Tamil newspaper, had its Toronto office vandalized over the weekend, apparently by people who disliked its reporting on a meeting between Kula Sellathurai, president of the Canada-Sri Lanka Business Council and the United Tamil Council of Canada, and Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka.
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Americans bemoan Canadian Olympic television
American TV viewers accustomed to watching the Olympics on CBC television are upset ….