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Bell Canada can continue to slow down certain types of Internet traffic flowing on the wholesale networks it provides to smaller Canadian Internet service providers after federal regulators denied a request for…

Al-Jazeera has appointed Tony Burman, editor-in-chief of CBC News, as managing director of its English-language channel, reported the Guardian newspaper. The story said Burman’s arrival “follows a period of turmoil at the…

Gunmen dragged freelance journalist Sirwa Abdel Wahab from a taxi and fatally shot her in the head on May 4 in Mosul, Iraq, reported CBC, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, etc.   “Her death…

Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan writes on World Press Freedom Day about her first-hand knowledge of death threats to journalists in Canada: “I was still startled two months ago to find a…

“How do (China’s) communist sentinels of cyberspace manage to control the information flow so precisely?” asks der Spiegel — and answers its own question, in depth. An excerpt from How China Leads…

Anne Kothawala, President and CEO of the Canadian Newspaper Association, has some thoughts about freedom of expression in Canada and the world, published in the Globe and Mail to mark World Press…

For World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Reporters Without Borders has issued its new list of the “predators of press freedom.” They are, says RSF, “men and women who directly attack…

Dean Starkman writes of the mayhem at the once-respected Wall Street Journal caused by the resignation of its editor and the ineffectiveness of a committee set up to protect the institution: “At…

The world is an increasingly hostile place for journalists. Freedom House released Freedom of the Press 2008: A Global Survey of Media Independence in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May…

Nominations this year from the National Magazine Awards Foundation are led by the Walrus followed by Toronto Life, Maclean’s, Report on Business, L’actualité, and explore.  Finalists for Magazine of the Year are…