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Larry Cornies is coordinator of both the print journalism and new media programs at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ont., and teaches journalism ethics at the University of Western Ontario in London. Previously, he was an A-section page editor at The Globe and Mail, Toronto; Maclean-Hunter Chair of Communication Ethics at Ryerson University's School of Journalism, Toronto; and Editor of The London Free Press, London, Ont. He continues to write a weekly column for The London Free Press.

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A little applause, please

Two bits of positive media news today on the heels of yesterday’s disconcerting announcement by the union representing workers at the Toronto Star that the newspaper will soon outsource most of what’s left of its classified advertising department to a firm in Buffalo, N.Y.
First, CTV backtracked on an earlier decision (or was all this mere [...]