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Larry Cornies is coordinator of the print journalism, broadcast journalism and new media programs at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ont. He also teaches journalism ethics at the University of Western Ontario in London. For more information, see the Bio page.Recent tweets
- The time for city politicians and staff to ask that question about #EMD site is now, not a decade from now. 1 day ago
- #EMD site has got to be one of London's hottest brownfields. Does Cat get to walk away or is there a plan for remediation? 1 day ago
- MT @rachelnixon: There's a message from Douglas Coupland in this QR code if you scan it - from his latest exhibition. http://t.co/KSIlS3fC 2 days ago
- Overheard this coming from @StephenSongtime's desk earlier this week. Nice diversion from HNIC. http://t.co/l2OlqGAN 2 days ago
- [Column] Dear panel to be convened by @JohnToryShow: Remember that it's @OntarioPlace, not Toronto Place. http://t.co/EbuQ71BC 2 days ago
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"Go to where the silence is and say something." — journalist Amy Goodman in accepting an award from Columbia University
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Bruce Dowbiggin sends Jamie Campbell to the showers
After a succession of disappointing seasons that moored the Toronto Blue Jays in the centre of the pack of the American League East, this season’s early flirtations with the rarefied air atop the division’s standings provided a little excitement for … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged baseball, Bruce Dowbiggin, Jamie Campbell, Sportsnet, Toronto Blue Jays
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Sunfest jazz and a hint at a new journalism
Sunfest, the annual festival of international music in downtown London, Ont., is on again. Over the past decade, it has steadily grown to the point where it now eclipses what used to be the city’s headline summer music event — … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and culture, Broadcasting, Canada, Journalism
Tagged aboriginals, CBC Radio, Home County Folk Festival, John Ralston Saul, Ray Anderson, Sunfest
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Flashback Friday: October 1983
Times change. Young reporters grow old(er). Blonde hair makes way for grey. And ’80s mustaches get, well, left in the ’80s. Here’s one of my first TV stories. I was freelancing for a show called World Report, a religion current-affairs … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Flashback, Reporting
Tagged Kansas, Mennonites, PBS, taxes, World Report
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and culture, Broadcasting, Journalism education, Magazines, Newspapers
Tagged A-Channel, Brandon, CRTC, CTV, Grand Theatre, Ryerson, television, Toronto Star, Windsor, Wingham
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Covering Michael Jackson
I get a discomfiting sense of unease during occasions such as today’s marathon coverage of the Michael Jackson funeral and memorial service, watched by hundreds of millions around the world. Media (and news media in particular) are, at times, the … Continue reading
