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    CBC Ombudsman: Fairness in Ford Nation

    By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Jacqueline Bell, thought that repeated use of the name of one candidate, Michael Ford, and references to the “Ford dynasty” on the day of a municipal by-election to fill the seat formerly held by Rob Ford, violated the need for balance and fair coverage. She was concerned this…
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    Memo: CBC is back in Turkey

    The following memo was sent to CBC staff on Oct. 14, 2016, from Greg Reaume, Managing Editor, CBC News Coverage. CBC News is back in Turkey.  The temporary bureau we opened in Istanbul nearly two years ago proved so rewarding we are setting up there once again.  And who better to have at the helm than correspondent Nil…
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    Memo: Agreement reached over Toronto Star newsroom culture review

    The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on Oct. 14, 2016, by Alan K. Bower, Executive Director, Labour Relations Toronto Star and Star Media Group, and Steve Gjorkes, Unit Chair Unifor Local 87M. Staff: We are pleased to jointly announce an agreement has been reached and signed between the company and the union to…
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    New book about investigation of Jian Ghomeshi needs more introspection

    Kevin Donovan, Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation. Goose Lane Editions, 2016. 232 pages, $19.95. By Dan Rowe, Books Editor Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation by Toronto Star reporter Kevin Donovan serves, first and foremost, as a reminder, if one is still needed, of accusations of monstrously harassing behavior in Ghomeshi’s personal and professional life.…

  • Matthew Braga is a freelance tech reporter and lecturer at Ryerson. He broke news about how Canadian police services use cellphone surveillance in investigations. Photo courtesy Matthew Braga/Screenshot by J-Source.

    How Matthew Braga finds scoops on the tech beat

    By Chelsea Lau For Matthew Braga, technology was just an interest at first. He wanted to know the inner workings of technology and how they worked on a technical level, whether it was smart phones, laptops or video games. It was only when he pursued writing that he combined his love of tech with journalism…

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    CBC’s senior reporters and anchors reflect on a changing media landscape

    By Trevor Hewitt When Peter Mansbridge began working at a Winnipeg newsroom in 1971, there was only one woman in the entire newsroom. Her job? Answering the phone and getting coffee. That is until one day when someone asked her, yet again, to do what had become a routine coffee run for the office. “Get…

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    Radio-Canada fights RCMP attempt to obtain interview materials

    By Grant Buckler The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are seeking to obtain never-broadcast excerpts of interviews conducted by Alain Gravel, formerly of the Radio-Canada current affairs program Enquête, concerning alleged corruption at the Canada Revenue Agency. According to a La Presse report, Gravel conducted interviews with Francesco Bertucci, owner of the Montreal employment agency Thomson…

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    Seizure of Journal de Montreal reporter’s computer shows need for shield laws

    By Thomas Rose, Law Editor A journalist in Montreal is anxiously awaiting a decision by a Quebec judge as to whether police will be allowed to rummage through his computer, which was seized earlier this month. Michael Nguyen is a justice reporter at the Journal de Montreal.  Last June he broke a story alleging provincial…