CNW Group: CAJ welcomes reinstatement of CanWest columnist - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Jul 06
  

  Yule Heibel

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  • The CAJ remains concerned that some media outlets view tying news
    coverage to advertising as an acceptable practice. One such example is the
    Alberta Fairview Post, part of the Bowes Publishers Ltd. chain. Its publisher
    last week verified a reader's suspicions that a large local event was not
    covered because its organizers hadn't purchased advertising, but maintains
    editorial space is not for sale.
  • with the good
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  • • rapid response of the Times Colonist and CanWest
    • the occasional slip-ups
    • the CAJ had expressed its concerns about what it sees
      as the increasingly pervasive blurring of the line between news coverage and
      advertising in markets across the country, citing Smith's case as one example.
    • whose contract was terminated earlier this month after
      advertisers expressed concerns to the paper's publisher about one of her
      stories.

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  Yule Heibel on 2006-07-25
  news release from CanWest Global Communications Corporation reporting on the Canadian Association of Journalists' relief over the rehiring of Vivian Smith (see Public Eye Online, http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/001652.html and other entries from earlier in the July archive).

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