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Vancouver Province reporter Elaine O’Connor has been ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court to reveal her source on a story about a former Liberal MP. Province editor-in-chief Wayne Moriarty said they’ll appeal.

If you watch the news, you’ve probably seen a “look live”. That news-speak term means a reporter who appears to be live in the field, but was taped doing the introduction to…

Tom Gaglardi, owner of the Kamloops Blazers hockey team here in my hometown, has decided the sports editor of the Kamloops Daily News doesn’t get access to anyone on his team until…

Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press has a masterful piece of journalism in today’s Globe and Mail on the day Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan. Thanks to Tom…

On a recent Today Show, the host was interviewing a woman who lost her home in a California mudslide. It was an tearful exchange, but according to this entry in Dave Cullen’s…

There’s a compelling article in the Ryerson Review of Journalism that asks questions we should all be trying to answer about why we as an unchallenged rule immediately decide not to cover…

The Toronto Star has also posted its photo faves and, for those of you who don’t have a chance to read the Star, you should check out the quality of work its…

Some amazing photographic work in this slideshow by the New York  Times of some of  its best pictures of 2010. Some truly powerful pictorial statements.

Globe and Mail columnist Norman Spector takes a swipe at major media in his blog with a posting about his G&M column on Stephen and Laureen Harper being pulled from the website.…