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Separation of church and fourth estate
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August 17, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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In Marci McDonald's contentious new book The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, the author explores how evangelical Christian organizations have affected Canadian public policy and opinion by pressuring the media and borrowing lobby tactics imported from our southern neighbours. Ken Paradis reports.
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How pop culture influences Canadian communication
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July 20, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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 Valérie Bélair-Gagnon reviews the third volume of How Canadians Communicate, which features a series of essays that focuses on Canadian pop culture and our nation’s search for identity in a globalized world...
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The conduct of public inquiries
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July 13, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Whether its about G20, Air India or Mulroney-Schreiber, good, bad or indifferent public inquiries make news and reporters are sent to cover them, Peter Rehak writes. Yet, relatively little has been written that would help a journalist deal with such an assignment. Until now, that is.
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Spy vs. Lie
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March 30, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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 Our Man in Tehran, a new book by Robert Wright, suggests Canadian Ken Taylor was a CIA spy, and news outlets were quick to jump on the label. But reviewer Claude Adams wishes they'd get their facts right.
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The nuts and bolts of media relations
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November 17, 2009 - Posted by David Spencer
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 Author William Wray Carney has produced a "highly readable, practical and scholarly" but at times "dated" text on media relations with In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in Canada. Reviewed by Karla K. Gower.
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Globe reviews Wente and Murphy column collections
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November 16, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray
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"I like columnists. I really do," begins David Hayes' review of new books from Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente and Globe columnist and CBC commentator Rex Murphy. Hayes' review appeared...
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Aspers got value for money in commissioned bio
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November 3, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray
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 Peter C. Newman's Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul is an authorized biography that sheds less light on its subject matter than on its legendary author's reporting practices, according to reviewer Marc Edge. Edge is the author of Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company, a history of Canwest Global Communications.
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Media companies are converging, so should the unions
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October 6, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray
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 In The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? scholars Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco argue for larger, more powerful unions to combat the media concentration that’s resulted from media mergers and acquisitions. Reviewed by Marc Edge.
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A Dying Breed?
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September 8, 2009 - Posted by Jane Hawkes
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Esprit de Corps editor Scott Taylor is taken to task for irresponsible behaviour in a new review by J-Source contributor, Jeffrey Dvorkin. Taylor - a former soldier - writes about carrying weapons when he was embedded as a freelancer with a Canadian unit in the Balkans in 1988. He says he fired a pistol towards Serbian forces. Dvorkin - a former news chief with CBC Radio and NPR - says Taylor "not only endangered himself, but endangered all other foreign
correspondents who would come into the field long after Taylor had
returned to safety in Canada."
Last year, 109 journalists died trying to cover the news. Reviewing two recent books dealing with journalism and danger, Dvorkin says some journalists teeter between recklessness and bravery in their hunt for the story.
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An American Radical’s brand of investigative journalism
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July 14, 2009 - Posted by Cecil Rosner
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 I.F. Stone made significant contributions to investigative journalism at a time in the U.S. when holding powerful institutions to account was seen as unpatriotic and disloyal, writes Cecil Rosner in this review of D.D. Guttenplan's new biography American Radical The Life and Times of I.F. Stone.
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Breaking down the feature writing process
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April 13, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray
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 From idea generation to pitching, researching, interviewing and finally writing, The Bigger Picture: Elements of Feature Writing takes readers through the often daunting process of creating long-form journalism, writes Marc Edge in this review. The book, he says, is both a resource for feature writers and a "welcome relief" for journalism educators.
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Tales of a rookie reporter in B.C.’s Wild West
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December 10, 2008 - Posted by Regan Ray
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 Mark Leiren-Young’s memoir of his first reporting gig at a small-town paper, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen, illustrates his palpable love of chasing stories, writes Shannon Rupp. In under a year, the young rookie covered a slumlord, a murder, a pilot’s disappearance, a bomb-strapped defendant in court and, of course, beauty queens.
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edited by David Spencer
 In this section we review books related to journalism in Canada and point you to reviews published elsewhere. If you would like to suggest a book or volunteer to review, please send us an email. David Spencer researches and teaches journalism at The University of Western Ontario.
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