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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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Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

There were many influences on my choice of journalism as a career, but one of them was surely Walter Cronkite.
Cronkite was the avuncular, articulate and dispassionate TV news anchor who, for an entire generation of North Americans, acted as narrator and guide through the most momentous events of their time. During an era when television [...]