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Global TV Afghanistan liveblogLast week, Global News made internet history by becoming the first news organization to liveblog from the frontlines of a war.  The coverage comes on the eve of Canada’s pullout from Afghanistan. Canadian journalism news site J-Source.ca wrote about the liveblog, which was powered by ScribbleLive and included a live chat with Capt. Braden Greaves, who is from Alberta and on his first tour in Afghanistan, Capt. Jaime Donovan, a public affairs officer from N.S., Lieutenant-Commander Mark Shepherd, chief of information and influence at Task Force Kandahar, and Melanie De Klerk, Global National’s research supervisor currently living at the Kandahar Airfield. They also ran a liveblog that looked back at a decade of war in Afghanistan.

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