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“Women have made huge advances in TV sports broadcasting over the past 10 years,” writes William Houston in a Globe and Mail critique of women’s role in sports broadcasting. “There are more…

The American Society of Newspaper Editors will vote next April on cutting the word “paper” from its name and expanding its membership to include editors of online-only news Web sites and journalism…

Why did neither of Canada’s two major all-news networks — CTV and CBC — for the first time fail to cover, live, the Dec. 16 repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Trenton…

Between Obama and the Press, a piece in the upcoming New York Times Magazine, looks at how the relationship between the press and the new president might shape up — or not…

Quebecor Inc’s Canadian newspaper unit, Sun Media, announced 600 job cuts, 10 percent of its work force…

In a tone of hilarity and snickering approval the story of Iraqi “journalist” Muntadar al-Zaidi’s throwing his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush at a news conference has flooded all forms…

Globe and Mail Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen is taking up a new post in New Delhi and leaving Africa. The Globe published a remarkable first-person piece in which Nolen “bids farewell to…

Under “mountains of debt and falling ad revenue” the Tribune Company, the American owner of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy protection in a U.S. federal court,…

Just as death notices are being written for newspapers someone has a new use for them. A new design for a coat lined with newspapers “is being hailed as a major breakthrough…

The Council of Europe recently adopted a Convention on Access to Official Documents. The convention’s language is rather inspiring: it refers to aims of greater unity; ideals and principles; the importance in…