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This week, Ipsos Reid executives Darrell Bricker, CEO, and John Wright, senior VP, penned an open letter to journalists demanding they do a better job reporting polls during election time.

No one likes covering a suicide. The publicity may add pain at a time of grieving, and can, experts fear, push other suicidal people over the age. But for Stephen J. A. Ward, the question is how — not whether — painful facts should be reported.

As Tim Knight puts it on The Mark, he and Kai Nagata have some differences: "We're separated by 50 years and 2,000 miles." But also similarities: Both are former TV journalists who believe the industry is mortally ailing — and both have recently penned widely read missives on why; Nagata on his blog, Knight on…

Scores of media travelled to Manhattan once news of the 9/11 attacks hit, but many Canadian media were denied access into the city. CP photojournalists Ryan Remiorz and Paul Chiasson made it through — after a police officer at the first checkpoint unthinkingly laid a press credential on Chiasson's larger, French "MEDIAS" press card, covering…

When Stephen Harper appointed Toronto Star columnist and Corriere Canadese editor Angelo Persichilli as his new director of communications last week, many politicians, journalists, and regular joes and janes were surprised. As Jane Taber writes in The Globe and Mail, “Angelo Persichilli does not fit the Harper mould.” A round-up of the reaction.

Journalists should stop looking at outside industry pressures when talking about the death of newspapers, and start looking at themselves, writes j-student Mihir Zaveri in independent student press paper The Daily Californian.

When Conrad Black's new book, A Matter of Principle, is released Sept. 15, the former media magnate will already be back in prison. But that doesn't mean he'll keep mum: Black recently spoke to Metro Morning's Matt Galloway about the book, his time in prison, his innocence, and the state of newspapers today. The interview…

"I can scarce believe it's finally happening," writes Lloyd Robertson in an open letter posted to CTV's website.

While most of us lament the end of summer, writes Lisa Taylor, there is one thing to cheer: the end of silly season in news. An examination of how endless sunny days + slow news + journalist = lapse in critical thinking.

WikiLeaks and The New York Times are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.