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“A French documentary sparked a media ethics controversy on Tuesday after journalists handed over the names of 22 suspected paedophiles to police in Canada and France,” reported Agence France-Presse.  “Reporters from the…

Gotta love Philip Pullman: “It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked.…

You’d be an April fool to turn up your nose at the Vancouver Sun‘s “innovative “four-dimensional” newspaper technology project, the first of its kind in the world.” The paper announced that the…

The National Post has drawn criticism for its portrayal of women, and so-called women’s issues. J-Source isn’t the place to discuss those issues, but journalists might ask why the mainstream newspaper’s owner,…

Kirk Citron: “In the long run, some stories are going to matter more than others.”

Meteorologists — whose faces are on television as weather forecasters — have become the target of climate change activists because so many in the U.S.  are climate-chance skeptics, reported the New York…

Apparently Mike Duffy is not a Chomsky fan, or perhaps even a j-school fan. As Metro Halifax reports, he slams journalism schools while visiting King’s College.

Leonard Asper resigned from debt-ridden Canwest “in order to pursue other business opportunities and to avoid any concerns regarding potential conflicts of interest,” announced the company.

The record number of Olympic gold medals won by Canada, and a jubilant post-games party that was largely problem-free — left some media critics” red-faced,” impressed, and startled, reported a Canwest writer…

Andy Barrie has been a household name for almost a generation of CBC listeners in Toronto. As of Monday March 1, he will be gone …