CBC Online News Returning – Kind of

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Across Canada locked out CBC Journalists, with a passion for journalism and a commitment to keeping the public informed have been working hard, putting together makeshift news rooms wherever they can find the space with whatever equipment they can beg or borrow. The result is CBC Unplugged. According to Mark O’Neill, from the CBCU Steering Committee “The CBCUnlocked.ca website WILL be soft launching on Tuesday, Sept 6; if that goes well the public launch will be the following day. The site is national in scope…”

CBC Unlocked is not endorsed by or affiliated to the Canadian Media Guild or the Canadian Broadcasting corporation. It is being established as a Canadian news website, and will adhere to appropriate standards and practices. According to O’Neil “Editors will be looking for a range of material: news-of-the-day, current affairs, commentary, A&E features, sports...and anything else anyone thinks up.” It is not the intent for this to be a site to cover the CBC lockout, or as a propaganda site for either side.

Please let your contacts, mp’s, government offices, other government officials the general public and anyone else you can think of know what is going on. There have been some problems reported in attempts at news gathering. CBC Unlocked is about providing Canadian News to Canadians, not about the lockout, and not about taking sides in the lockout.