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Reports the Globe and Mail: “The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is behind an unprecedented flood of complaints to Canada’s information watchdog.“The latest annual report from Information Commissioner Robert Marleau says his office received…

A tidbit in a Guardian blog ponders a new trend — APIs — in big media. In the next few weeks, notes blogger Jemima Kiss, The New York Times API “will make…

Here’s a good-looking headline we don’t see every day: “Foreign journalists free to report on China quake”

In the category of scary corporate big brotherism: “Germany was engulfed in a national furor over threats to privacy on Monday, after an admission by Deutsche Telekom that it had surreptitiously tracked…

Megan McArdle offers a succinct analysis of the transition from print to web in a piece posted at The Atlantic’s website. She accuses many “commentators on the changing media landscape (of having)…

New CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix says the CBC needs $215-million more federal money as well as a seven-year funding plan, reported Sun Media. Speaking to a conference of the Academy of Canadian…

From CBC.ca: A Canadian magazine will be making history Thursday — Canadian Geographic is publishing its annual environment issue on paper made from wheat, a first for a North American magazine.The issue…

“Though the Iraq war is arguably the most significant act of American foreign policy in decades, it is often invisible at home,” writes Damien Cave. Surprise comes through strongly in the New…

With Canadian soldiers dying in Afghanistan, with Canadian money funding projects, what obligations does Canada — and do Canadian journalists — have to prevent abuse of authority by the government we help…

A story in the New York Times looks at how disobedience by numerous reporters, who covered the Chinese earthquake against direct orders, challenged — and broke down — China’s censorship system. An…