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Supreme Court sends Robertson and the Globe back to court

Author and writer Heather Robertson's long-running class-action lawsuit against The Globe and Mail took one more step on Thursday toward -- well, toward something. Ten years ago, Robertson took the Globe to court because the ... Read More »

October 12, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

CBC Radio buys a vowel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Fans of Q&Q's Finer Points column may want to check out a new CBC Radio summer program, And Sometimes Y. The half-hour show, which premiered last night and runs over the next two months, is ... Read More »

June 27, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Chinese wordsmith tossed in the pokey

By Cassandra Drudi

After spending the '90s in prison for his outcry against China's curb-stompage of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, Internet journalist Yang Tianshui has been thrown in jail for his predilection for free speech.He got 12 ... Read More »

May 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Might is right

By Scott MacDonald

In what appears to be an attempt to keep a lid on the pot of global warming, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has barred Mark Tushingham, a scientist for Environment Canada and the author of the ... Read More »

April 18, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

By Scott MacDonald

The most fun In Other Media has had in about two weeks should end with a posting by Toronto Star books editor Dan Smith that went up on the newspaper's website yesterday. In the posting, ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

By Scott MacDonald

Here at In Other Media, controversy makes us as giddy as the recipients of brand new puppies on Valentine's Day morning. In the last month or so, we linked to as many stories on James ... Read More »

February 14, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

10-year-old Conundrum at crossroads

By Scott MacDonald

Last week, Hal Niedzviecki wrote an article in The Globe and Mail commemorating the 10th anniversary of the small, Montreal-based publishing company Conundrum Press. Hitting some commercial success lately with books like Chandra Mayor's novel-in-vignettes ... Read More »

November 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

May the coverage begin

By Scott MacDonald

It's only two days after the Governor General's Awards shortlists were announced, and media coverage has already been plentiful. The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand weighs in on the lack of overlap between this year's GG ... Read More »

October 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

We're on a road to nowhere

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following his participation in Humber College's first summer publishing workshop, writer Hal Niedzviecki has turned his experiences -- he served as one of three judges of the students' final projects, along with Kim McArthur and ... Read More »

October 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Canadian literary fiction: undersold and under-publicized

By Scott MacDonald

The Globe and Mail's books editor, Martin Levin, outlines the predicament surrounding Canadian literary fiction: under-publicized and therefore undersold. The roots of the publicity problem, he claims, are in the ever-decreasing number of Canadian book-talk ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: Globe and Mail

Supreme Court sends Robertson and the Globe back to court

CBC Radio buys a vowel

Chinese wordsmith tossed in the pokey

Might is right

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

10-year-old Conundrum at crossroads

May the coverage begin

We're on a road to nowhere

Canadian literary fiction: undersold and under-publicized

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