Blacklock's Reporter (founded October 2012) is an
Ottawa
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-based Internet publication covering
Canadian government
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administration. It publishes several articles each day, along with book reviews, poetry and guest commentaries.
Six reporters, including Tom Korski, banded together to launch the news site.
Its name is derived from a
Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...
war correspondent, Thomas Hyland Blacklock, (died 1934) who had been head of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery.
In November, 2012, Blacklock's won a dispute with the
Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery to have its journalists accredited.
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@mindingottawa Twitter account
Canadian news websites
2012 establishments in Ontario
Canadian political websites
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