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Book review: Canadian Television: Text and Context
Canadian Television: Text and Context is an "exemplary collection" of essays and is about both the substance and practice of television studies, and offers myriad solutions to some of the above challenges facing those…
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Government statement singles out ‘controversial reporter’
In what has been called an “unusual, if not unprecedented” move, the Prime Minister’s Office and parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister Dean Del Mastro have issued a statement in response to…
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On current affairs and satire: Esther Enkin’s first review as CBC Ombudsman
Esther Enkin, who began in her new role as CBC Ombudsman on Jan. 1, released her first review last week. In it, she examined CBC Radio’s The Current’s use of satire in its broadcast.
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On The Canadian Press creating its first Storify: ‘Yes, you’ll see more of this’
On Wednesday, The Canadian Press published its first Storify on Toronto Maple Leafs' General Manager Brian Burke's firing. Mel Coulson got in touch with Andrew Lundy, CP's new Director of Digital, to…
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One photojournalist who doesn’t want to die having never worked for a newspaper
Jonas Bendiksen is an award-winning Noweigan photojournalist who has shot for National Geographic and has a second place finish in the Daily Life Stories category for World Press Photo to his name. While he has…
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Toronto Star publishes apology for unattributed material taken from The Globe and Mail
The Toronto Star has edited an online version of a business article and published an apology after it was discovered that parts of the article had been taken from an earlier report by The Globe…
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Photojournalist John D McHugh launches new watermark iPhone app Marksta
A London, UK photojournalist has launched an app he hopes will help photographers retain an element of control over their copyrighted work when posting photographs online.
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What have we learned from Newtown?
After the frenzied scramble comes, in time, self-examination. It needs to be the other way round, says Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.
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The future of community news is in capturing the local
Despite Sun Media shutting down a number of its weekly titles recently, community news experts and editors aren’t buying the idea that print is dead. As Ryan Mallough reports, there may be a number…
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Why shouldn’t newsrooms work with the marketing department?
No journalist would ever suggest that commercial interests should override editorial independence. But as The Canadian Press editor-in-chief Scott White explains, some editorial managers are saying the time has come to reinvent and re-examine…