Rosemary Barton named permanent host of CBC's Power & Politics

Rosemary Barton has been named the permanent host of Power and Politics. She has been hosting since the departure of Evan Solomon.
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CFRA talk show host Lowell Green to retire

Lowell Green, CFRA’s sharp-tongued radio host who captivated and exasperated Ottawa audiences for more than 50 years, announced his retirement early Monday, Ottawa Magazine reports.
Starting out as a news and farm reporter in 1960, Green, 79, was best known for his cantankerous exchanges with listeners who called in to speak with him about current events on the popular Lowell Green Show, which began in 1993. While some may have felt Green’s style was too confrontational, his fans loved his no-nonsense style and considered him a champion of common sense. Loved or hated, Green’s on-air conversations were always water-cooler fodder across Ottawa.

The newspaper box makes its last stand in the age of digital media

The Globe and Mail's James Bradshaw writes:
Though the battle for news readers is being fought online, there is a lonely sentry that still stands watch for print: the newspaper box.

It is an anachronism in almost every way – no cheaper than home delivery, less efficient than digital distribution and reliant on coins just as cashless and mobile payments are taking over.

Yet through rain, sleet, snow and a digital revolution, thousands of paid newspaper boxes are still standing across the country, many stocked with only a handful of copies each day, and propped up by a devoted few readers comprising largely, it seems, commuters, cottagers and dog-walkers. The boxes are at once symbols of print’s rapid decline and also of its resilience.
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MP and former CTV personality Seamus O'Regan enters 'wellness program' for 'alcohol-free lifestyle,'

Seamus O'Regan, the newly elected Liberal MP and former Canada AM host, has entered a "wellness program" so he can adopt an "alcohol free lifestyle," according to message sent from his twitter account.
"I've decided after consultation with family that I can be most effective as a Member of Parliament by adopting an alcohol free lifestyle," the Tweet said.
"I will return to my duties as the Member of Parliament for St. John’s South - Mount Pearl prior to Parliament resuming in January."

When Journalism Catches Hollywood’s Eye- N.Y. Times

Joes Nocera writes in the New York Times:

It is not every year that Hollywood produces two movies about journalism that are Oscar contenders, but 2015 appears to have been that year. First came “Truth” in October. Based on the memoir of a former “60 Minutes” producer, Mary Mapes, it purports to tell the story of her gutsy 2004 investigation into George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard when he was a young man. When it turned out that her story, which was broadcast on “60 Minutes II” months before the president’s re-election, had unwittingly relied on falsified documents, the network suits turned against her and her famous correspondent, the CBS anchor Dan Rather, costing them their jobs.

“Truth” was followed in November by “Spotlight,” which goes inside The Boston Globe’s groundbreaking investigation into the pedophile priest scandal — and the shocking fact that child-molesting clerics were being protected by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. (And, as we now know, by dioceses all across America and much of the rest of the world.) Starring Michael Keaton as Walter V. Robinson, known as Robby, the head of The Globe’s Spotlight investigative unit, the film is the most straightforward journalism procedural since “All the President’s Men.”

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