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Students could be key in Halifax journalists’ strike
By Errol Salamon for CWA Canada Journalism students and recent graduates are well placed to support Chronicle Herald newsroom workers in Halifax, who have been on strike since Jan. 23. They can collaborate with…
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Why Quebec—and Canada—needs more black voices in media
By John Delva Blacks make up Montreal’s largest visible minority. According to the 2011 census, 147,100 live in the city. Why, then, are there so few in our media? As far back…
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Postmedia’s promises prove practically worthless
By Marc Edge And so the Great Canadian Newspaper Roll-up has begun. This was predictable once the Competition Bureau rubber-stamped Postmedia Network’s $316-million takeover of Sun Media last year. As a result,…
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Globe public editor: Media hurting but still producing memorable journalism
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail It has been a bad week for journalism: 200 jobs lost in the broadcast and publishing wings of Rogers Media, and the closing of…
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Toronto Star public editor: The Trump show – a Rob Ford rerun?
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Ship of state now sails with no rudder
Print journalists watch as the last flickering embers of what was a tremendous blaze that warmed an entire civilization begin to go out.
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Saying good-bye to the Guelph Mercury
Former staffer Stephanie MacLellan recalls her time at a paper that fostered young talent.
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Links between freelancing and gender inequality highlighted by Chronicle Herald labour dispute
Women get a raw deal out of proposed Chronicle Herald collective agreement
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Freelancers, union leaders urge support for Chronicle Herald staff during labour dispute
Freelancer says there is a striking sees striking similarities between their contract negotiation and the current labour dispute.
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Toronto Star public editor: It’s never too late to correct the historical record
What did Pierre Trudeau actually say about Richard Nixon upon learning that the president had called him an ‘asshole’? Likely, not exactly what we think.
