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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. Previously, he was an A-section page editor at The Globe and Mail, Toronto, and Editor of The London Free Press, London, Ont. From 2006-2008, he held the Maclean-Hunter Chair of Communication Ethics at Ryerson University's School of Journalism in Toronto. He continues to write a weekly column for The London Free Press, as well as features and columns for a variety of other publications and websites.-
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- Among Conestoga's new crop of journalism students, about a third just out of high school, a third from university, a third from workplaces. 1 day ago
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- A small but energizing group of students at tonight's orientation and launch of Conestoga's postgrad new-media program. Exciting year ahead. 3 days ago
- Longtime Essex County school super't Michael Kraus lost battle with leukemia Friday; funeral at Migration Hall, Kingsville, 2 p.m. Monday. 5 days ago
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Category Archives: U.S. politics
The undoing of White House correspondent Helen Thomas
She was the matriarch of White House correspondents — until a few ill-considered sentences from the side of the camera lens to which she is less accustomed landed her in hot water late last month and forced her abrupt resignation … Continue reading
Posted in , Journalism, U.S. politics
Tagged CBC, Hearst, helen thomas, Jian Ghomeshi, Q
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New chief at The Globe’s Ottawa bureau
More changes at senior levels of The Globe and Mail. Ottawa bureau chief Brian Laghi is leaving Parliament Hill to tackle a new career, which he characterized to colleagues as a bid to satisfy a need for change as he … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian politics, Journalism, Newspapers, Politics, Reporting, U.S. politics
Tagged Brian Laghi, Ed Greenspon, Globe and Mail, John Ibbitson, John Stackhouse
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William Calley and the ghosts of My Lai
Anyone old enough to remember the Vietnam War will recall the infamous My Lai massacre. It was a seminal event in the history of that war because of its effect on public support for U.S. involvement there. Millions of Americans … Continue reading
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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