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Follow O?Brien Trial on Twitter

By Simon Fodden

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Yesterday the judge in the Mayor Larry O’Brien trial, Associate Chief Justice Douglas Cunningham, ruled that reporters may report live from the courtroom via their electronic devices. This is, I believe, the first time that such live blogging has been permitted in a Canadian trial. The ruling was made on a motion by the Ottawa Citizen. It’s no surprise, therefore, that the same journal is live tweeting the procedings.

Glen McGregor, a reporter for the Citizen, is tweeting the trial at http://www.twitter.com/obrientrial and already has a number of tweets up from a brief first day. If you could use some background to make sense of things, you can find a series of informative pieces gathered on the Ottawa Citizen website.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).

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