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Does the arrival of Al Jazeera English in Canada pave the way for “special consultative committees” to become a CRTC requirement? Which media organization should be next …

Forget time-lines. Forget historical analysis. Forget still photos or documentaries. This look at the impact of unemployment rates is one of the most effective examples of creative — and visual – journalism I’ve seen.

While Japan’s government complains about a too-chummy press gallery, Canada’s press complains about a lack of access to government  …

To a Canadian, where the government exerts increasing control on media and opposes transparency, this story seems like a tale from some fantasy opposite world: Japan’s government wants a tougher press. “Japan’s new government is challenging one of the nation’s most powerful interest groups, the press clubs, a century-old, cartel-like arrangement in which reporters from…

Times are tough for media organizations trying to cover news as more and more journalists keep getting laid off. A suit in the U.S. contends that staff at one newspaper tried to cope by using plagiarism. Or, as a source described the practice to a New York Times reporter, “errors stemming from aggregating news from…

Globe and Mail reporter John Ibbitson’s report from India — and a news conference question about Canada selling nuclear technology to India — earned a stinging and highly-opinionated rebuke by an Indian news service. Ibbitson, a reporter traveling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, had asked India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh how Canadians can trust that…

If reporters and editors stopped giving gratuitous publicity to Sarah Palin, would she be newsworthy?

“Quietly, The Globe and Mail has shut down the Moscow bureau it opened in 1986,” Twittered Globe and Mail East Asia correspondent Mark MacKinnon. “Lights finally went out at Kaluzhskaya Ploschad on Nov 1.” Lawrence Martin’s Remembrance Day column for the Globe, about reporting on glasnost in Russia — and the opening of that Moscow…

CanWest shares —  delisted at the close of trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange — will start trading Monday on the TSX Venture exchange, the company announced. As a CBC story noted, “companies lose their listings for failure to abide by the rules of the stock exchange.” Exchange rules exclude companies which have dropped…

Alleged quote by Rupert Murdoch on his intent to sue broadcasters like the BBC for stealing the work of print journalists … oops, make that “copyright infringement”: “If you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we’ll be suing them for copyright … They will have to spend…