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Jeff Lee, the Olympics reporter for the Vancouver Sun, was paid to write for the the official magazine of the International Olympics Committee, reported the online magazine thetyee.ca. But Lee is just…

Canwest negotiated a lifeline for itself worth $175-million, providing yet more breathing room for refinancing negotiations with banks, bondholders and possible investors. Under the new arrangement Canwest has until June 15 to…

Scientists get media-savvy? It’s about time. The New York Times reports on “science for the Mediacene age, the unveiling at the American Museum of Natural History of a 47-million-year-old fossil that some…

A prank played by an Irish student who laid a trap for lazy journalists on Wikipedia  — and caught some big prey around the world — proves again that journalists should check,…

Canwest Global Communications Corp. received another two-week extension, until May 19, in talks with debt obligations with senior lenders and U.S. bondholders. Noted the Hollywood Reporter, “The latest extension came as Canwest…

Journalists who are not American — and thus protected by that country’s constitution — are working under tough new restrictions imposed by NATO in southern Afghanistan, reported Canadian Press. The story notes…

The New York Times looks at the conundrum of whether coverage exacerbates a crisis. An excerpt: Without the news media the public would be dangerously unaware of the swine flu outbreak, but…

Canwest’s Leonard Asper blames the regulators for the woes of broadcasters such as Canwest’s Global…

Does concentrated ownership of media help render Canada a “Third World” nation? Elizabeth May thinks so — but her reasons and where she lays blame are contentious …

Canwest News Service has launched a series in its chain of newspapers examining the “siege mentality that is gripping the newspaper industry.” The topic is especially challenging in this series for two…