Former Star publisher John Cruickshank has been appointed Consul General of Canada in Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper executive for several years. In a statement Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Cruickshank’s appointment will strengthen Canada’s presence in the U.S. Midwest.
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Threats to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, Latin America’s …
Threats to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, Latin America’s declining left, The shifting role of journalism, What does Trump mean for US role in the world?, Will ‘Scoxit’ follow ‘Brexit’? A lone “Yes” campaign supporter walks down a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, after the result of the Scottish independence referendum, in which voters decided to remain in the United Kingdom, Sept. 19, 2014.
Threats to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, Latin America’s …
Threats to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, Latin America’s declining left, The shifting role of journalism, What does Trump mean for US role in the world?, Will ‘Scoxit’ follow ‘Brexit’? A lone “Yes” campaign supporter walks down a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, after the result of the Scottish independence referendum, in which voters decided to remain in the United Kingdom, Sept. 19, 2014.
Sophie Trudeau celebrated International Womena s Day by honoring a boys and mena
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events On Facebook, Canada’s first lady called on her supporters to “celebrate the boys and men in our lives who encourage us to be who we truly are, who treat girls & women with respect, and who aren’t afraid to speak up in front of others.” She asked fans to take a picture of themselves and their male allies, hand in hand.
Sophie Trudeau celebrated International Womena s Day by honoring a boys and mena
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events On Facebook, Canada’s first lady called on her supporters to “celebrate the boys and men in our lives who encourage us to be who we truly are, who treat girls & women with respect, and who aren’t afraid to speak up in front of others.” She asked fans to take a picture of themselves and their male allies, hand in hand.
4 reasons why it is difficult to call Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 201726 min ago
Lucknow, March 3: As polling for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2o17 enters tail-end, political pundits have started to predict the outcome for India’s biggest assembly with 403 seats. While reporting from Varanasi, veteran journalist Rajdeep Sardesai predicted BJP’s win whereas another veteran Bharat Bhushan highlighted the eroding youth support for the BJP in this report published in Catch News .
Dear Diaries: Tina Brown publishing book of private journals
The British-born author and magazine editor has a deal with Henry Holt and Co. to publish the diaries she kept during her years running Vanity Fair, the publisher told The Associated Press.
Colombia protests China’s execution of 72-year-old drug mule
A retired journalist who joined the criminal underworld while researching a book on South America’s drug cartels became the first Colombian, and possibly the first Latin American, to be executed in China for drug The execution Monday night of Ismael Arciniegas occurred amid a last-ditch diplomatic effort by Colombia’s government to save the 72-year-old’s life. Arciniegas was arrested in 2010 arriving by plane to the southern port city of Guangzhou trying to smuggle almost 4 kilograms of cocaine in exchange for $5,000.
Jimmy Boyle, Barlinnie and me, by the woman who married Scotland’s notorious gangland killer
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German Social Democrats still hard on heels of Merkel’s conservatives – poll
Germany’s Social Democrats held steady at 31 percent support in a survey published on Wednesday, remaining hard on the heels of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives – on 34 percent – seven months ahead of a federal election. Journalists during news conference of new Social Democratic Party leader Martin Schulz at their party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, January 30, 2017.
Rudy Maxa’s World
Building on five successful seasons of travel shows featuring Europe and the Pacific Rim, award-winning travel journalist Rudy Maxa broadens his horizons – and those of his audience – with the launch of RUDY MAXA’S WORLD. In this new 13-part series, Rudy offers his sophisticated take on a destination’s history, culture, architecture, politics and cuisine, while also turning a journalistic eye to the people and lifestyles of Russia, Estonia, Turkey, India, Argentina, Japan and Thailand.
TDP Mla Amachi Krishna Mohan’s brother beats up journalist for write-up
Hyderabad, Feb 6: Brother of a sitting MLA of Telugu Desam Party thrashed journalist M Nagarjuna Reddy in broad daylight on the streets of Chirala, Andhra Pradesh for writing an ‘unfavourable’ write-up. The write-up highlighted alleged corruption activities undertaken by TDP MLA Amachi Krishna Mohan and his brother.
The President’s surprise return
News of his departure was not hidden that Thursday, January, 19. He had announced it to Nigerians through a letter delivered to Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, that same day. And before the end of that day, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, issued a press statement, disclosing that he was proceeding on vacation in London.
Researchers confirm ‘lost continent’ below Mauritius
Indian Ocean topography shows the location of the East African island nation of Mauritius, where researchers have verified the location of a ‘lost continent.’ Brandie Weikle is a senior writer for CBC News based in Toronto.
a Fake news is undermining the work of journalists
Workers oversee the new rotary printing press during a test phase at French media Ouest-France headquarters in Rennes in November 2014. We are living in an era of increasingly narrow populist politics, corruption and inequality.
Ex-hostage’s daughter finds dad’s love by meeting his captor
She tried drugs. She tried arguing. She tried writing a book. After a quarter century, the daughter of the longest-held American hostage during Lebanon’s civil war says she’s found her father’s love.
Veteran Singaporean journalist Seah Chiang Nee dies
Former newspaper editor Seah Chiang Nee during an interview with an AFP journalist at his home in Singapore, October 7, 2005. SINGAPORE: Veteran Singaporean journalist Seah Chiang Nee died on Sunday morning , at the Singapore General Hospital.
2017 poses challenges for Zim scribes
As with any other campaign year, 2017 will be a difficult year for Zimbabwean journalists who will face the prospects of being victimised by political activists and security agencies, national director of MISA-Zimbabwe Nhlanhla Ngwenya told the Daily News recently. Ngwenya said last year’s protests saw 31 journalists being victimised mostly by state security agencies and with the 2018 elections looming in which Zanu PF wants to retain power at all costs while the opposition wants to gain power, the political campaigns will be tension filled and the journalists covering the events will be victims.
Yedioth editor: We would have walked if publisher made deal with PM
Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. Amid a growing scandal surrounding recordings that appear to show Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes negotiating a series of firings and reforms to push coverage more friendly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the editor of the popular daily said his staff would have quit en masse had the plan gone through.
Fairfax NZ posts first annual loss in four years in 2016
Fairfax New Zealand posted its first annual loss in four years as it wrote off than $100 million from the value of its mastheads and buildings and more than doubled its bill to pay out redundancies in 2016, all while resuming dividends to its Australian parent and lifting executive pay. The Wellington-based unit of ASX-listed Fairfax Media Group reported a loss of $75.3 million in the year ended June 30, 2016, turning around a profit of $21.9 million a year earlier and marking the first time the books were in the red since 2012.
Did a coal fire sink the Titanic?
Did an intense fire on board R.M.S. Titanic lead to one of the worst disaster’s in maritime history? A new documentary by author and journalist Senan Molony suggests the emergence of pictures hidden in a forgotten album for a century prove that the supposedly unsinkable passenger ship was weakened by a smoldering coal fire even before it left on its catastrophic maiden voyage. Titanic, which at the time of its sinking in 1912 was the biggest ship afloat, hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic on the night of April 14 and went down with the loss of about 1,500 lives.
The Latest: Turkey monitoring social media accounts
Turkey’s deputy prime minister says authorities are monitoring hundreds of “provocative” social media accounts that allegedly support terrorism and foster divisiveness in society. Numan Kurtulmus said Monday that 347 social media accounts which were determined to “sow seeds of enmity among the public” were under investigation, with legal action taken against 92 individuals.
Why FIR filed against Zee News reporter for covering Dhulagarh riots, …
New Delhi, Dec 27: An FIR has been filed against a Zee News reporter Pooja Mehta and cameraperson Tanmay Mukherjee for covering the Dhulagarh riots, claims channel’s editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary. The FIR also includes the name of Sudhir Chaudhary.
Michael Weissenstein named AP Caribbean news director
” Michael Weissenstein, a veteran correspondent and editor who currently serves as Cuba bureau chief for The Associated Press, has been named all-formats news director of a newly unified Caribbean Bureau, headquartered in Havana. The appointment means that the AP is returning its Caribbean base of operations to Cuba, the region’s largest country, for the first time in 55 years.
Ask for traditional surgery rather than pelvic mesh implants, says study out this week
Sling the Mesh campaign logo by March-based artist Michelle Deyna Hayward. Sling the Mesh was launched in England in June 2015 by Archant Newspapers journalist Kath Sansom Mesh implants to fix pelvic organ prolapse have higher risks than traditional surgery but no extra benefits, according to a report released this week.
Accused in Amanda Lindhout kidnapping to face trial next October
A man charged with taking journalist Amanda Lindhout hostage in Somalia is slated to face trial by judge alone next October. Three weeks have been set aside for the trial of Ali Omar Ader, which will come more than two years after he was arrested and over nine years after the abduction.
Alleged BDS activist writer may be forced to leave Israel
A journalist who has allegedly engaged in activity supportive of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement may not be able to remain in Israel, the Government Press Office told The Jerusalem Post exclusively on Sunday. GPO director Nitzan Chen said he was leaning against renewing the press card of Antony Loewenstein, a Jerusalem- based freelance reporter who writes for The Guardian and other publications.
Regional Storm Update: Schools, roads, hockey cancelled: ‘It’s a corker’
Atlantic Canadians like newspaper publisher Paul MacNeill were hunkering down at home on Friday as a storm shut large parts of the region down. HALIFAX – Atlantic Canadians like newspaper publisher Paul MacNeill were hunkering down at home on Friday as a storm shut large parts of the region down.