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I am a staff writer with CTV.ca News. That operation is part of CTV News, which is of course nestled into CTV Inc. and CTVglobemedia.

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View Article  The documentarist as star

The Toronto Star's Geoff Pevere on the proliferation of the first-person doc, something not invented by Michael Moore, but someone who did give it commercial legs. And he did it all, say his critics, by putting compelling story before truth.

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View Article  Buying shooting news traffic

When the Virginia Tech shooting occurred, a number of major news organizations went to Google and Yahoo! and immediately bought keywords relating to it, paying up to 20 cents per clickthrough.

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View Article  Where the billionaires live in Russia

The Beeb's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes gets invited to visit a US$20 million "cottage" in a secluded Moscow suburb, one packed with other such modest dwellings belonging to other plutocrats.

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View Article  If I'm ever imprisoned ...
I want it to be in Hickman, Kentucky. Here's why.
View Article  Positive news quota imposed on Russia's largest radio network

Allies of Russia's President Vladimir Putin are setting out some ground rules for their newly-acquired Russian News Service.

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View Article  The new, reimagined globeandmail.com is here

Globeandmail.com has soft-launched its new look. The official launch date for the redesigned newspaper is Monday, April 23.

First, here's a look at globeandmail.com's old design (reconstructed from archive.org's May 30, 2006 capture):

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