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Ira Basen
Ira Basen: Media Watch

Ira Basen joined CBC Radio in 1984 and was senior producer at Sunday Morning and Quirks and Quarks. Among his other accomplishments include his involvement in the creation of three network programs The Inside Track (1985), This Morning (1997) and Workology (2001). He has also written for Saturday Night, The Globe and Mail and The Walrus. He has taught at the University of Toronto and Ryerson. He is a co-author of the Canadian edition of The Book of Lists, which will be published by Knopf in November 2005. His book on public relations and the media will be published by Penguin Books in 2006.

FEATURE COLUMN:

June 8, 2005
Deep Throat 2005: chances are, he’s a PR guy
"Many major news organizations in the U.S. have tightened up their policies on the use of anonymous sources in the wake of the WMD fiasco and several other high profile errors."


COLUMNS BY IRA BASEN:

April 18, 2005
“Follow the money”: Watergate, the sponsorship scandal and the press

Nov. 2, 2004
Bloggers vs. Big Media in Campaign 2004: Score One for the Little Guys

Oct. 30, 2004
The Campaign's First Loser Declared: It's Big Media

May 19, 2004
Wheels on the bus




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