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CTV Ottawa will double its local news efforts starting later this month with a new 5 p.m. newscast, in addition to its existing evening show. The new show, _ News at Five _ , will launch on Aug. 28 with Matt Skube at the helm, Bell Media announced in a news release Thursday. ...

The union that represents 68 employees of the _ Ottawa Citizen _ and _ Ottawa Sun _ has a strike mandate in contract negotiations with the papers' owner, after members voted in favour of authorizing one. The Ottawa Newspaper Guild and Postmedia, which owns the papers, are scheduled to meet with a conciliator on June 20 and 21, the _ Citizen _ reported. ...

CTV Ottawa will expand its local news offering by launching a 5 p.m. newscast in a bid to provide more flexibility to an audience with changing viewing habits. The newscast, dubbed _ News at Five _ will be separate from its existing _ News at Six _ . ...

_ (Via Carlsbad Springs Community Association) _ As of May 1, 2017 the community of Carlsbad Springs has a local bilingual tourist information radio station owned and operated by the Carlsbad Springs Community Association (CSCA). The CSCA is the only community association that owns and operates a radio station in the City of Ottawa. ...

[caption id=“attachment_67565” align=“aligncenter” width=“720”] Eight staffers at Rogers TV in Ottawa were casualties in a rash of layoffs across the network in Ontario. (File)[/caption] Rogers TV in Ottawa will stay on the air, but eight full time employees have lost their jobs as part of a round of layoffs across the network’s Ontario stations. ...

[caption id=“attachment_66587” align=“aligncenter” width=“720”] A print edition of the New York Times. Digital access to the venerable newspaper’s website is now available online through the Ottawa Public Library. (Devyn Barrie/OttawaStart.com)[/caption] Whether getting your daily Trump fix, following world affairs or doing research, you can now get free access to the _ New York Times _ and parts of its historical archives through the Ottawa Public Library. ...

[caption id=“attachment_64356” align=“aligncenter” width=“6000”] The Fulcrum, uOttawa’s campus newspaper, has been served libel notice by the president of the university’s student union. (Devyn Barrie/OttawaStart.com)[/caption] The president of uOttawa’s student union filed a notice of action to sue campus newspaper _ the _ _ Fulcrum _ after they published allegedly defamatory statements made against him at a union meeting. ...

_ ** Editor’s note: The FM frequency 95.7 has been empty in Ottawa since about 2014, when a local station carrying national network Aboriginal Voices Radio went quiet. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission later revoked all licenses for the AVR in 2015, opening up its other frequencies in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. ...

[caption id=“attachment_63844” align=“aligncenter” width=“620”] The bizarre race between two Ottawa news organizations to find out why this goat was in a parked car speaks volumes about news to get clicks. (Ann McNab)[/caption] If ever you need an example of what’s wrong with modern journalism that aims to get clicks, look no further than this week’s race between the CBC and _ Ottawa Citizen _ to find out why there was a goat behind the wheel of a parked car. ...

From a silver-plating factory in Trenton, to a 28-year career in the RCMP, to 24 years in community journalism, 74-year-old John Brummell retired from the _ Stittsville News _ on Friday. ** Here’s an article about him in the _ Stittsville News _ this week. ...