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From CP via globeandmail.com: Tony Burman, the one-time head of CBC news, has been appointed managing director of Al Jazeera's English operations. Burman, 59, takes over from Nigel Parsons, who has held the position since the network's launch two years ago. Parsons is now managing director of business acquisition and development. “In the months ahead, [...]
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The BBC's Paul Danahar on his efforts to stay out of the clutches of Burma's Special Branch police and keep reporting from the disaster-ridden country. From the BBC: I woke up early, flushed my contacts and fake business cards down the toilet, sat on my bed and waited for the Special Branch. They and the [...]
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If you haven't heard, Karl Rove — once best known as Bush's Brain – is a pundit for Fox News while also acting as an informal adviser to presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. But he's hardly the only ex-politico backroomer showing up on American airwaves. From the May 12 NYT: At times clearly partisan, at others apparently offering [...]
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark thinks there's many reasons besides his creation why U.S. newspapers are facing troubles these days — even though it pulls in US$80 million to $100 million annually with just 25 employees. From the May 12 NYT: The Web sites’ expansion comes as newspapers are experiencing a steep downturn in classified advertising, [...]
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Vancouver writer Stan Persky on the 75th anniversary of a notorious event in anti-intellectualism. He wrote about it at the Tyee: May 12, 2008 — Some things I take personally. This is one of them. That's because I write books. So, whenever people burn books — whether it's the ancient library of Alexandria, Egypt going [...]
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