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We hear that Star editor Michael Cooke made fun of the the Globe over its choice of chocolate over Egypt for an above-the-fold cover story last week - in the middle of the African country's revolution. Cooke was speaking at Toronto's Massey College. A little bird told us he said something like "If the Globe knows what it's doing, then I'm in real trouble."

Any other nuggets from last night? Please put them into the comments section...

California freelancers have started a Facebook group to ask Arianna Huffington to share some of her $350 million windfall from the recent sale of the Huffington Post to AOL. The episode is a stark lesson for those writers who thought that simply being allowed to contribute to this revolutionary media form was compensation enough. The new media is…
Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke will be the guest at Massey College's Press Club Night on February 16. John Fraser, the Master of the college, which houses a few 19th century presses in the basement, will host the conversation based on Cooke's answer to his question of  "how many new journalists" the paper had to hire to "enliven" itself over…
A tentative settlement worth approximately $5.5 million was reached on behalf of freelancers with a group of publishers including the Toronto Star Newspapers and Rogers Publishing. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice will consider the tentative settlement in April.Many Canadian freelance writers have heard of Robertson v. Thomson, a 2006…

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