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    Ming Pao’s union fight

    When workers at Ming Pao, one of Toronto’s largest Chinese daily newspapers, started to unionize this summer things got nasty fast. Management laid off union organizers and openly likened others to Maoists.…

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    The power of the Punjabi press

    A growing number of people in the GTA say they are becoming victimized by the highly influential, and allegedly irresponsible, ethnic media, reports the Toronto Star.

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    Roy MacGregor decries reporters treated like “hamsters” to “file, file, file” the arcane and minutiae

    In a passionate call for a return to storytelling, Roy MacGregor, blames the an "obsession with 'content'" for applying pressure on reporters to "file, file, file" to produce content that lack substance.…

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    Another great books list

    Who doesn’t love a top j-books list? For journalists, it’s endless fun debating what books should have made it but didn’t, and what books did but shouldn’t have.

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    Maclean’s tries augmented reality for Rethink issue

    For its second annual Rethink issue, Maclean’s is all about innovation – even when it comes to the magazine itself.

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    A short history of the ampersand

    Did you know the wily (seriously, try drawing it) ampersand is really the result of B.C.-era scribes working too fast while writing “e” and “t”?

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    The CBC got it wrong on Rob Ford: Torontoist

    When it comes to the Rob Ford/22 Minutes sideshow the CBC failed big time, writes Mark Bourrie in the Torontoist.  

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    Rob Ford’s freeze out

    Toronto mayor Rob Ford may pride himself of being accessible to every regular Joe who phones him, but he's spent his first year in office freezing out selected media. Now, the motion…

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    Singing at a news conference?

    In the growing list of funny things Americans do during the race for their party's presidential nomination, you can add Herman Cain singing out his news conference.

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    Rick Perry doesn’t get the Globe’s joke

    Texas governor, and Republican presidential hopeful, doesn’t get The Globe and Mail’s satire. Or, at least, it would seem that way after he recently took a jab at the Occupy movement by…