Live blog: Does the parliamentary press gallery matter?
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, national bureau chief for Sun Media and host of Battleground, for this discussion. Tom Clark, the chief political correspondent for Global News and host of The West Block, moderates this panel.
By Melanie Coulson, Education Editor
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Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.
