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Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada). As an investigative journalist MacIntyre co-hosts of The Fifth Estate on CBC;…

Journalists recall covering Germany’s “9/11” — 20 years ago — when the Cold War that had seized the world for some two generations symbolically began to melt….

A Globe and Mail political blog reports on the newspaper’s spat with Auditor-General Sheila Fraser, over whether the Globe’s excerpting of a chapter ….

Nearly three weeks after a petition was begun to urge action in the kidnappings of Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, there are only 523 signatures. What gives? The online petition asks Ottawa…

The next time I have a lousy work day, or despair about the state of journalism in Canada, I’m going to re-read this piece about José Rubén Zamora, editor of El Periódico:…

A longtime journalist recently sent an email to a bunch of colleagues with notice of a typewriter for sale. The journalist sent along assurance that  the machine works perfectly and is in…

“In a scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds, a giant seagull stole the show on the Channel Nine News in Melbourne,” reported Australian online news.com.au. “The massively magnified bird…

The Toronto Star spun Stephen Harper’s alleged admission — “I don’t like to watch Canadian news” — into an entire column including reaction and confirmation about whether the prime minister takes in…

The U.S. White House and Fox News are in a de facto war. Now journalists are talking about whether to deal with the Fox News team as colleagues, or with the whole…

A case now being heard in the Supreme Court of Canada will determine the fate of whistleblowers — and will have a major impact on press freedoms in Canada. Lawyers for media…