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    A public broadcaster at a crossroads: CBC moving forward

    It’s been a tumultuous week for the CBC — 650 jobs will be lost, services and programming will be cut, RCI will be no more save for the web. But as Belinda Alzner reports, this isn’t a first for the public broadcaster. It’s time for CBC to deal with the cuts it faces, and there is no…

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    CBC/Radio-Canada: Return of ads to radio?

    Is CBC/Radio-Canada planning to return to advertising on their channels to make ends meet? We'll have to wait until April 4 to find out, when CBC plans to announce how it will deal with the 10 per cent cut that was handed to it in last week's federal budget, but as Anne Caroline Desplanques reports,…

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    Common journo jargon and how to avoid it

    At some point, nearly every journalist has been guilty of having used the oft-dreaded, always-loathed jargon in his or her copy. When you read this list, try saying some of them out loud—they'll probably sound weird. That’s because nobody (outside of police and spokespeople, maybe) actually says this stuff in real life.

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    The racial and cultural implications of rapping the Elements of Style

    Last year's adaptation of The Elements of Style wasn't the first time young, white, educated males have parodied hip hop, and it surely won't be the last. But Chris Richardson, a media studies PhD candidate at Western University, says that lost in the chuckles and grammatical debates, however, is a discussion of what it means…

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    How can Canadian magazines get greener?

    With the Magazines Canada Carbon Footprint Compendium, a variety of magazine groups from across Canada have come together to create a document that accepts responsibility for magazines’ carbon footprints, by nature of being print-based, and sets out different ways they can reduce them.

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    Why one reporter left Bay Street for journalism: The Globe and Mail

    After Greg Smith wrote last week's scathing New York Times op-ed outlining in detail why he left Goldman Sachs, there were a number of employees who took it upon themselves to explain why they left their morally bankrupt jobs. Tim Kiladze, now a business reporter at The Globe and Mail, was one of them.