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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
- RT @cressman: The TED lecture you weren't supposed to see. http://t.co/FO8M2ULD 10 hrs ago
- Congrats to @ConestogaC's @rachelleguelph and her students for winning a national award with Conestoga Connected. http://t.co/YscUiHXK 10 hrs ago
- Agreed. A great personal essay. RT @cbcsteve: A touching piece by @RandyatLFPress on remembering #ToriStafford http://t.co/HSCQumz5 1 day ago
- Gotta hand it to @NatalieGore_ and her hubby, who drove 6.5 hours each way to surprise her mom on #MothersDay Beautiful gesture. 5 days ago
- This is feature writing at its finest. RT @bruce_arthur: My column on the strange success of Dale Hunter: http://t.co/gToUjkgv 1 week 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: Newspapers
Spielberg film to boost Tintin’s worldwide profile
To say Tintin inspired me to become a journalist would be an overstatement. He was, after all, merely a cartoon character who lived inside the covers of my favourite books at the local public library. As a child, I checked … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and culture, Life in general, Newspapers, Reporting
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Covering the plight of Suaad Hagi Mohamud
Kudos to the Toronto Star for going the extra 7,500 miles (about 12,000 kilometres) to cover firsthand the extraordinary plight of Suaad Hagi Mohamud, the Canadian citizen and Toronto resident detained in Kenya for three months after she was falsely … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Journalism, Newspapers, Reporting
Tagged Canada, CBC, CTV, Globe and Mail, Kenya, National Post, Salim Hamdan, Somalia, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, Toronto Star, Yemen
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Stackhouse establishes new Globe and Mail regime
John Stackhouse, the Globe and Mail‘s newly minted editor-in-chief, has set in place the foundational cornerstones of his newsroom. As is often the case when a sea change washes through a major news organization, some of the alterations are notable. … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Newspapers
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The Bandidos trial and Twitter
Like some other readers, I’d wondered why The London Free Press had recently allowed its groundbreaking coverage of the Bandidos trial via Twitter (see my earlier post) to dissolve into a hit-and-miss affair that, increasingly, is absent altogether. Stories and … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Journalism, Newspapers, Online journalism, Reporting, Sensationalism, Technology
Tagged Bandidos, Globe and Mail, London Free Press, Robert Pickton, Twitter
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Teneycke, Harper and managing news media
The resignation of Kory Teneycke as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s director of communications brings to at least five the number of people tasked with managing the information flow between the Prime Minister’s Office and the news media since early 2006. … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Journalism ethics, Newspapers, Politics, U.S. politics, Videography
Tagged Ira Basen, Kory Teneycke, Peter Mansbridge, Ron Ziegler, Stephen Harper, Watergate
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