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Commentary: Provinces wrong in colluding to deny CBC information requests

When the CBC's Fifth Estate came calling for information on Canada's hospitals, the provinces responded with a collective "no." Data journalism editor Fred Vallance-Jones says it happens all too often.
The story behind CBC’s offshore “tax havens” series

CBC explains how it got the tax haven series, which all began when almost a year ago when Frederic Zalac, a reporter for the Radio-Canada program Enquete and our Special Investigations Unit,…
Jennifer Pagliaro, Katie May named Goff Penny award winners for young Canadian journalists

Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro and Lethbridge Herald’s Katie May have been selected as the two recipients of the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists, in the over 25,000 and under 25,000 circulation classes respectively. They…
Live blog of the Atkinson 2013 lecture: Toronto Star’s Michelle Shephard on reporting about security

Join us at 1 p.m. on April 11 to hear Toronto Star security reporter Michelle Shepard talk about reporting from home and abroad on terrorism at the 2013 Atkinson Lecture at Ryerson University.
Affaire Guy Hébert: les médias ont-ils été manipulés?

Retour sur les quelques jours qui ont précédé la démission de Guy Hébert de son poste de directeur général de la Ville de Montréal, sur fond de manipulation et de querelle…
The Lance gets temporary reprieve; must submit new operating plan by month’s end

The Lance, the University of Windsor campus paper, received a temporary reprieve from the student government to print the final edition of the semester. The 85-year-old newspaper was ordered to end all its…
What happens when journalists become the story? A Q&A with science writer Mark Lynas

If science journalists find themselves covering an issue from one way and then seeing things from a different perspective, what should they do? Where do you draw the line between activism and journalism? Agricultural…
Canadian journalists Ali Velshi, Wab Kinew join Al Jazeera America

Canadian journalist Ali Velshi has left his position as CNN’s chief business correspondent to join Al Jazeera America. Wab Kinew also tweeted Tuesday that he will be joining Al Jazeera as a correspondent…
Postmedia chairman Ron Osborne died

The 66-year-old chairman of the Postmedia Network Inc. board, who often went by “Ron,” passed away suddenly Monday in Florida.
George Stroumboulopoulos named host of new CNN summer show

CBC television host George Stroumboulopoulos will be hosting a brand new show on CNN this summer. The weekly, one-hour series will air 10 episodes on Friday nights. But fear not, Strombo will…

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