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Mark Potts, author of the Recovering Journalist blog, has a few choice thoughts about the American Press Institute’s upcoming one-day summit of 50 newspaper executives, who are gathering in a closed-door session…

Atlantic writer Michael Hirschorn has discovered media critic and filmmaker Peter Watkins, who specializes in historical and current-affairs re-creations like The War Game but whose “real subject,” wrote Hirschorn, is an intense…

A report by a British think tank calls on governments in Europe to protect the free speech of Muslims against religious extremists. The report, Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe’s…

The kidnapping in Kabul of CBC journalist Mellissa Fung was kept secret for four weeks. On Saturday the CBC reported her release “into the custody of Canadian officials.” … Podcast: Play in…

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This week’s edition of L’Express International was banned by Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco for having “offended Islam.” Associated Press quoted an anonymous official who said Algeria banned the magazine because it published…

CTV News closed their newscast last night with a witty, clever, informative and entertaining story on the U.S. election by CTV’s LA bureau chief Tom Walters. It’s poetry – literally; he marries…

Toronto Star public editor Kathy English wrote of the Toronto Star‘s recent move to axe pseudonymous online comments alongside signed letters in its online Web Forum: “I would prefer the Star demand…

With an annual budget of $10 million, all donated, Media Matters aims to monitor accuracy and bias in American media — and has a reputation for holding especially partisan right outlets to…

    Aboriginal People’s Television Network asked in an episode of its program Contact, “Is the mainstream media part of the problem?” ….

A ruling by the  the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission includes provision for a new fund to support local news programming in markets under one million people, with cable and satellite distributors…