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“It was enough to melt the heart of a cynical scribe: a standing ovation for two Conservative cabinet ministers – from the parliamentary press gallery,” leads John Ward of the Canadian Press,…

Unionized Quebec journalists will host a conference next February, headed by Joan Fraser, on whether media is still serving the public interest. Fraser knows about this issue first hand. She was a…

In 1990, four years before the first web browser was released, the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the newspaper chain…

Alternet has an interview with Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. The leader says it’s about how Krugman thinks “the right-wing media machine is destroying social progress.” Here’s Alternet…

A New Brunswick judge extended an injunction against a man trying to start up a community newspaper in New Brunswick, who is accused of stealing corporate secrets from the Irvings, reported Chris…

Al-Jazeera’s journalists have suffered bombings, expulsions, censorship, threats, beatings, routine jailings and controversial incarceration by U.S. forces. Now, says an Associated Press report, “Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against…

Finally: WASHINGTON – A federal communications regulator on Thursday said News Corp.’s proposed $5 billion acquisition of The Wall Street Journal’s parent company raises competitive issues nationally and in New York.Michael Copps,…

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be enough to protect journalists from being forced to give up their sources, lawyers for Montreal’s La Presse argued in Federal Court. The newspaper…

The Association of Electronic Journalists announced a new award for Best Television News Information Program, named after Trina McQueen. McQueen has been a reporter for Toronto’s CFTO; co-host of W5; a reporter…

Six Iraqi women who work in the McClatchy Newspapers bureau in Baghdad were honoured in New York with a “courage in journalism award.” Kudos to the New York Times for running the…