Category / Commentary
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Five Questions for David Beers
J-Source talks to Tyee editor and founder David Beers about being the puffer fish of social media, why long-form works online, and how the B.C.-based online publication is rounding out the journalistic…
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Tony Burman talks to the Globe
If you haven't already, be sure to check out Gayle MacDonald's Globe and Mail interview with Tony Burman, of Al Jazeera English and CBC fame, and also the newest Velma Rogers Graham…
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Blatchford on Layton: Does she have a point, or was it plain bad?
Christie Blatchford's column on the media coverage of Jack Layton's death is bold, provocative, and either crass or brave, depending on who's talking, but does she have a point?
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The CBC stumbled with l’affaire Duceppe: Citizen columnist
Former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe's "whirlwind business relationship" with Radio-Canada isn't likely to fade from public discourse any time soon, writes Michael Taube in a recent Ottawa Citizen column.
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Fanning the flames of intolerance
In framing Nycole Turmel's affiliation with the Bloc as a scandal, writes Nick Van der Graaf, The Globe and Mail revealed the dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics. This story was originally…
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Former NHL-er Alex Kovalev takes shots at Ottawa hockey media
Former Ottawa Senator hockey player Alex Kovalev may have moved on to a two-year contract with the KHL, but he's not done with Ottawa yet. Kovalev gave an interview with Pavel Lysenkov…
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Steve Maich talks Sportsnet with Toronto Star
So, will Canada's only general interest sports pub look like a Canuck Sports Illustrated, or Maclean's with sports? Neither, new Sportsnet editor Steve Maich tells the Toronto Star.
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Journalist gets smackdown while taking photo; writes about it in Toronto Sun
Freelance journalist David Menzies apparently got the smackdown from "a woman wearing a hijab" last weekend after she was captured in a photo he took at Younge-Dundas Square with his nine-year-old son.…
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Rethinking journalism ethics, objectivity in the age of social media
In today's rapidly changing media environment, many journalism schools are getting creative when it comes to teaching journalism — and no subject is more tricky than ethics. J-Source contributing editor Stephen J.A.…
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Journalism and hidden sources
The scandal at News of the World links back to some very old abuses, writes The Globe and Mail's Neil Reynolds in a recent column. Namely, the risk of factual error when…