The Most Hated Name in News

Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism?

Ryan Carter / The Walrus

Deborah Campbell, The Walrus | Full Story | By the time Tony Burman resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2007 after thirty-five years, eight of them as editor-in-chief, he’d had enough of an upper management he thought was turning CBC into a “B-minus version of Global,” the network owned by ailing media giant Canwest. He had become, he says, “less and less happy” with CBC’s Americanized direction (though not nearly as unhappy as he might have been had he stayed for the savage staff and budget cuts of late). “It was really time to leave.” Yet neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that a year later he would decamp halfway across the world to take on the greatest challenge of his career, lured by a fascinating—and unlikely—development in international journalism. >>

Related: CanWest empire crumbles | The Star 09.10.07

Published 09.10.01 00:00:00 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 09.10.10 | |

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