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News organizations are hoping for a landmark ruling, after the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear a case involving the confidentiality of journalistic sources. The case involves a supposed conflict between…

An Afghan journalist held in a U.S. military prison for nearly one year was reunited with his family in Kandahar City Wednesday. Excerpts from a CTV story: “U.S. officials released Jawed Yazamy,…

The latest report of the Canadian Internet Project seems to defy the conventional wisdom that the Internet is killing journalism. An excerpt…

Notes from the newest Statistics Canada figures on radio listening: Last year Canadians listened to radio for 18.3 hours a week on average, continuing a trend that has seen a two-hour decline…

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released two backgrounder reports on ways to regulate new media, commissioned before a public hearing on new media. “The CRTC commissioned the reports but did not…

Freelance journalist Guy-André Kieffer disappeared in 2004 in Abidjan, where he was investigating a story about corruption in the cocoa trade. Kieffer spent some time in Canada, where he fathered a son,…

Reported the Globe’s Report on Business: “The struggling stock of CanWest Global Communications Corp. [CGS-T] is poised to suffer another blow – deletion from Canada’s benchmark stock index.” The Globe noted that Standard…

Admits Christie Blatchford in a Globe and Mail column titled, I’m not blogging this, mark my words: “I have written some astonishingly banal columns in my life, and some very personal ones.”…

Twitter, moblogs, wikis, feeds, social bookmarks, tagging, IM, RSS, crowdsourcing, citjour – there’s no shortage of new tools and new ways to do journalism on the web. Everyone knows journalism is transforming…

The ethics of reporting on China’s Olympic games are increasingly muddy. The International Olympic Committee has admitted it is allowing China to censor what foreign journalists can read while in China (in…