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Toronto Star reporter Robyn Doolittle, one of three journalists who has seen the infamous video of Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine, is joining The Globe and Mail. 

Does the national media coverage of the government matter as much as it used to? Join Jennifer Ditchburn, senior parliamentary correspondent for the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister of Multiculturalism, Senator Jim Munson, a former long-time member of the Press Gallery, and David Akin,…

Despite all the attempts to limit access to information at the federal level, journalists in the press gallery are still breaking important stories. Parliamentary press gallery president Laura Payton reflects on why Canadians should still want a strong journalism community in Ottawa as the message control gets tighter.

An election endorsement doesn’t stop the editorial board from criticizing anything the endorsed party or government subsequently does, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.

The complainant, Senator Donald Plett, felt the information about his travel expenses and those of his wife were misrepresented online and on television. But CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin says the subject was reported fairly. 

The danger in having media and politics mix in Quebec, writes Toula Drimonis, is that Quebecor, which also owns TV network TVA and cable company Videotron, not only controls how Quebecers see themselves and the rest of Canada, but also how the rest of Canada sees Quebec.

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting offers an annual award, encouraging Canadians to reflect and express themselves through original essays on the link between democracy and the media. J-Source is pleased to republish the award-winning essays. 

Duffy: Stardom to Senate to Scandal is well-researched and elegantly written biography of Mike Duffy, from his days as an ambitious kid and his climb out of the Maritimes, to becoming a journalist and senator. Veteran Ottawa journalist Mark Bourrie reviews the book.

Maclean’s political journalists—Paul Wells, John Geddes and Aaron Wherry—will offer their take on federal politics on a new show on Ottawa’s 1310 station.

It’s not easy to report on the Fords, writes Jan Wong, but the Toronto Star’s Robyn Doolittle is a journalist who has gotten the story right, over and over again. And yet the public either refuses to believe her or doesn’t care. As she puts it, the trust-me era for journalism is over.