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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. 3 days 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? 3 days 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 3 days ago
- Overheard this coming from @StephenSongtime's desk earlier this week. Nice diversion from HNIC. http://t.co/l2OlqGAN 3 days ago
- [Column] Dear panel to be convened by @JohnToryShow: Remember that it's @OntarioPlace, not Toronto Place. http://t.co/EbuQ71BC 4 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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Category Archives: Broadcasting
The CBC’s Brian Stewart signs off
Though he’ll be back on the air from time to time to help cover major events, today marks the last day on the job for CBC News senior correspondent Brian Stewart. After he anchors The National tonight in place of … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Canada, International politics, Journalism, Reporting
Tagged Brian Stewart, CBC News, Peter Mansbridge, Tony Burman
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Al Tompkins’ 10 commandments of shooting video
Back in the mid-1980s, when I was in graduate school, journalism students shot video on three-quarter-inch tape, using (if they were lucky) electronic newsgathering (ENG) cameras that weighed in at about 13 or 14 kilograms — even without the cumbersome … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Technology, Videography
Tagged Al Tompkins, Poynter Institute, Video
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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 … Continue reading
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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