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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Monday, June 21
Bloggers get press passes
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 21 Jun 2004 10:00 PM EDT
Wired News is reporting that bloggers are welcome to apply for press
passes for the Democratic National Convention in the U.S. The
Republicans, on the other hand, are a tad nervous ...
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Blogs Welcome at Dems' Convention
Coverage of this summer's political conventions could be a little more
colorful ... more »
NY Times under fire
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 21 Jun 2004 09:52 PM EDT
The New York Times is taking it on the chin from all sides recently.
(The Jayson Blair scandal is one thing -- something that was 'solved'
with some new editors.)
The new charges --- one critic is from the right and the other is from
the left -- suggest that ... more »
Remarkable candour by a newspaperman on his own newspaper
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DavidAkin
on Mon 21 Jun 2004 02:45 PM EDT
Roger Ebert, of course, isn't just any newspaperman. He's one of the world's most famous newspapermen (and I'm using that term not to exclude women who work for newspapers but in the hopes that readers will attach some of that old-fashioned, blue-collar, Matthau-and-Lemon-in-The-Front-Page moxy to the term).
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