Media Roundup
The Media Roundup provides you with the latest headlines and happenings related to journalism and communications in the Edmonton region.
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Monday, February 15, 2021
The latest on media, PR, and communications in Edmonton. Taproot Edmonton is retiring the Media Roundup in order to concentrate more fully on other endeavours. This will be the final edition.
Read this editionMonday, February 8, 2021
The latest on media, PR, and communications in Edmonton. A campaign by Canada's biggest newspapers to require Google and Facebook to pay them for distributing their news appears to be getting traction with the federal government.
Read this editionMonday, February 1, 2021
The latest on media, PR, and communications in Edmonton. The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is condemning the Nemeth report, produced as part of the Alberta government's $3.5 million inquiry into international opposition to the oilsands.
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Blank page greets Edmonton newspaper readers
A campaign by Canada's biggest newspapers to require Google and Facebook to pay them for distributing their news appears to be getting traction with the federal government.
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Alberta's Nemeth report swiftly condemned by Canadian Association of Journalists
The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is condemning the Nemeth report, produced as part of the Alberta government's $3.5 million inquiry into international opposition to the oilsands.
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Meet the Edmonton writer behind the new Nathan Fillion voiceover project
Jon Manning, an Edmonton-based writer behind the scripts of a new Nathan Fillion voiceover project with Berlin Communications and the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA), says he was "blinking into the darkness of sleepless nights" nervous about working with the celebrity.
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