(EDMONTON, AB) – Edmonton is a city with many stories, and many of them go untold every day. But that should change as Scott McKeen begins a six-month pilot as the City’s first-ever ‘blogger-in-residence’. The former Edmonton Journal columnist, former City Council candidate, and passionate Edmontonian will post stories about City of Edmonton topics on [...]
(LONDON, ENGLAND) – Detectives on Operation Weeting have identified and are investigating a suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails at Mirror Group Newspapers. This conspiracy is being treated as a separate conspiracy to the two being investigated at the now defunct News of the World newspaper. It is believed it mainly concerned the Sunday Mirror [...]
(MONTREAL, QC) – Sun Media Corporation announces today the elimination of approximately 500 positions throughout its organization including the closure of two production facilities in Ottawa and Kingston. These and other optimization initiatives that will be implemented in the coming months are expected to deliver more than $45 million in annualized cost savings. ″This restructuring [...]
(LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced an agreement with CBC/Radio-Canada to broadcast the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016. CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public radio and television broadcaster, has acquired the rights across all broadcast [...]
By Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – In the land of the unaccountable, the communications flow is blocked. While he may not be afraid of Virginia Woolf, the famous Edward Albee character, although this is not proven, the city of Windsor’s un-communications czar is apparently scared silly of the Windsor Square. And for good reason. With [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – After a month of searching, interviewing and deliberating, the Corporate Communications Department has chosen Jill Braido to fill the contract assignment as Marketing and Communications Officer. Jill will be getting in touch with the departments served in the coming days. Jill comes to the Corporation with a wealth of experience. She has been [...]
By Barbara Trionfi (ROME, ITALY) - A threatening handwritten letter addressed to four prominent Italian journalists was delivered in an envelope also containing four bullets to the headquarters of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI, in Rome’s Via Teulada on 1 March. The envelope was addressed to journalists Michele Santoro, Marco Travaglio, Gianni Barbacetto and Peter Gomez. RAI [...]
By Barbara Trionfi (VIENNA, AUSTRIA) – At an IPI event held yesterday at the International Press Institute’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Russian investigative journalist Galina Sidorova, who is IPI Vice-Chairwoman and the former editor-in-chief of the monthly Sovershenno Secretno, spoke about recent changes in the Russian media and the difficulties that Russian investigative journalists face [...]
(VANCOUVER, BC) - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has today taken a small step toward creating a more affordable Internet for Canadians, says citizen engagement group OpenMedia.ca. The Commission has launched a proceeding to reexamine billing practices between Big Telecom and independent Internet service providers (indie ISPs). In describing the motive for the proceeding, [...]
An Open Letter to the Public from Supt. Claude Wilcott (COQUITLAM, BC) – Intense scrutiny from the public and the media is a reality for all police forces in this day and age. We know that traditional and social media are important means of connecting with our communities and that public accountability can help build [...]
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