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There’s cause for optimism among print journalists in a new report from the Canadian Newspaper Association:         TORONTO, Sept. 19 /CNW Telbec/ – Newspapers are continuing to hold their own in Canada’s…

One way I judge “good” print journalism is whether a story grabs me, sucks me in and holds my attention until the very last word, no matter my underlying interest in the…

The ideological Western Standard magazine will stop printing after three years and 82 publications, and remain an online entity only, says founder Ezra Levant according to reports. “It’s not that we’re an…

The CRTC will begin seven days of hearings Oct. 9 on wholesale Internet access, or as the commission says, “the regulatory framework for telecommunications wholesale services.” Rogers, Shaw and Quebecor will represent…

On the anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Reporters Without Borders staged a ceremony at the Trocadero human rights plaza in Paris. The press rights group displayed photos of…

Global television, part of the CanWest conglomerate, is laying off a total of 200 people, the company said Thursday. It’s part of the broadcaster’s plan to update the technology in four centres,…

“Stop the presses!” leads a Canadian Press story, uncharacteristically. An excerpt:Stephen Harper sat down for a news conference with the national media on Wednesday. The prime minister temporarily put aside his well-documented…

Some time soon, I think, we’re all going to have to scrap the term “online” and agree on a new way to describe news presented on the Internet instead of through what…

I’ve encountered no more brutal assignments than those about suicide. Nobody seems to have found a way to entirely reconcile the gap between private grief and public information, and it’s interesting —…

This week the U.S. will preview five stamps featuring 20th Century journalists. A press notice of an Oct. 5 press conference names them:  war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998); John Hersey (1914-1993), whose…