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    Être une femme d’expérience, tu sais c’est pas si facile

    Rencontre avec Danielle Stanton par Audrey Desrochers – texte paru dans l'Indépendant, bulletin d'information mensuel de l'AJIQ. «Il faut ben manger…», affirme, d’un ton primesautier, la journaliste Danielle Stanton. Pourtant, elle ne s’est pas gênée pour refuser, récemment, un contrat qu’elle jugeait déraisonnable. Il s’agissait d’écrire un dossier complet, comprenant plusieurs volets, pour un magazine…

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    RTNDA changes name

    After 49 years under the acronym RTNDA, the Association of Electronic Journalists has voted to change its name.

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    RTNDA Award winners announced

    The Canadian Association of Electronic Journalists, RTNDA Canada, announced its award winners June 25 in Halifax. The awards honour top news stories and programming in Canadian radio and TV. Regional awards were also handed out for the Atlantic provinces; awards ceremonies have also been held in Vancouver, Toronto, and Saskatoon to honour regional winners in…

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    The Forgotten Hostage

    She called herself a journalist; her critics called her a propagandist. She was vilified as a nutcase, a drunk, a fraud, a Taliban-lover, even a traitor. Nevertheless, Beverley Giesbrecht did something few Canadians dared to do–to venture into Pakistan’s tribal regions with a video camera, looking for the “truth” about the jihadist insurgency. And she…

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    Reporting on the Arab Spring

    Sonia Verma started worrying when she noticed one of the men at the checkpoint had a walkie-talkie. She and fellow Globe and Mail reporter Patrick Martin had encountered many checkpoints driving around Cairo, but most were amateur affairs staffed by teenage boys armed with kitchen knives. This one was different, and when the men discovered…

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    Conrad Black back to prison

    The Globe and Mail (and other media) has reported that Conrad Black is going back to prison, after being out on bond for nearly a year. At his resentencing hearing today in Chicago, U.S. judge Amy St. Eve sentenced Black to 42 months, less time served. He has already served 29 months in jail, but…

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    Conrad Black resentencing hearing Friday

    After being free on bond for nearly a year, former press magnate Conrad Black will be back in a Chicago courtroom Friday for his resentencing hearing. He will appear in front of U.S. Justice Amy St. Eve, who could send him back to jail to finish all or part of his sentence — or not.