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On Wednesday afternoon, I found myself looking northward at the Niagara River from a viewpoint at Queenston Heights. A CityTV truck is off to my right. An older fellow, speaking in German-tinged English, asked me if I knew why the TV truck is there. “They got a tip: The Americans are set to invade again,” [...]
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From globeandmail.com: An increasing number of Canadians are reading their newspapers online, according to the latest readership numbers released yesterday by the Newspaper Audience Databank Inc. The figures, gleaned by NADbank from surveys conducted in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa in the fall of 2006 and the spring of 2007, show that for many newspapers [...]
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From CP via globeandmail.com: Newspaper executive Michael Sifton has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Sun Media Corp., owner Quebecor Media Inc. announced yesterday. Mr. Sifton's appointment is effective immediately, the Montreal multimedia company said in a news release. Quebecor Media's CEO Pierre Francoeur said Mr. Sifton, a former chairman of The Canadian [...]
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On Wednesday, veteran editor and publisher CBC named John Cruickshank as the new publisher of CBC News. From CBC.ca: Born and raised in Toronto, Cruickshank is a former editor in chief of the Vancouver Sun and also worked as managing editor of the Globe and Mail, which he joined as a reporter in 1981. He has also worked at [...]
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Dan Rather launched a US$70 million lawsuit Wednesday against his old employer CBS, which forced him out over the Memogate affair. Rather thinks he has evidence that will vindicate him. From the NYT: Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to [...]