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    CBC creates new position for newsroom liaison with Ombudsman office

    The CBC has created a new position to act as a liaison between the newsroom and the Office of the Ombudsman.  Jack Nagler, currently the managing editor of Radio News programs, will be the new director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement at CBC.  In his new role, Nagler will be "ensuring all complaints are…

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    Read the CBC memo on Jack Nagler’s new appointment

    I am pleased to announce that Jack Nagler will be our new Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement.  This is a recently created role within my management structure that will deal with existing files within CBC News and be mandated to take on new priorities.  More specifically, he will more actively manage the relationship…

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    Guardian (P.E.I) goes behind paywall

    Prince Edward Island’s largest circulating newspaper, is going behind a paywall on May 15. The TC Media-owned newspaper publishes six times a week from Charlottetown.

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    Why being a news reporter is NOT the worst job in the world

    With competitive pressure, tight deadlines and zero tolerance of inaccuracy, news reporting was never a low-stress occupation. The proliferation of digital platforms, tools and techniques aren’t making it easier. Nor are the famously uncertain business prospects of traditional news. But last out of 200? Does anyone really believe that, asks Paul Knox.  

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    CBC Kitchener Waterloo Morning Edition back on air Friday

    CBC Radio is bringing back its Morning Edition show in Kitchener-Waterloo an air Friday after recieving CRTC approval earlier today. CBC filed its application for the Waterloo Region service with the CRTC in June 2012, but it did not recieve permission to broadcast. The show had launched just over a month ago and was the…

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    David Common new host of CBC World Report

    CBC's New York correspondent David Common will anchor the World Report starting in September. He replaces former host Peter Armstrong, who was named the new national sports correspondent earlier this year. Most recently, Common reported from the Boston on the aftermath of the bombings. (Read his J-Source first-person account of that experience). He has also…