In addition to the massive relaunch of most CBC news products today (full reviews when they settle into the format), long time chronicler of the Ottawa bubble Kady O’Malley will make debut at the CBC’s new political site today.

CBC political portal now online

Launching officially at noon, the site is already live and making waves in Ottawa and beyond: the Canadian Journalism Project will no doubt report all day on the CBC News changes and Twitter searchers can find chatter about the changes here.

More interesting to me is the other effects in the media-sphere: As National Newswatch first reported this morning Jane Taber has taken her highly popular “Hot & Not” column online and daily.

I think this is part of the Globe and Mail’s response to today’s launch of the CBC News “political portal” O’Malley will be writing for. There have been some subtle changes at the G&M site in the past few months; like adding a former New Democrat campaign chief (Brain Topp) to balance out the long-standing imbalance in the political stripes of bloggers in their cadre and soliciting more online only articles. I’m afraid to say: the Ottawa offices of the CBC and the Globe are leaving CTV news in the digital dust.

And, in other media news

• At the CBC cross-medium integration isn’t like on the private networks. CBC Radio in Ottawa this AM got stiffed by the new host of Power & Politics, Evan Solomon. Kathleen Petty, a very experienced broadcaster skated over the issue well and didn’t really give listeners a reason her fellow CBC celeb-host was MIA. Instead, Petty explained that late night rehearsals might be to blame.
• The National also has a new web home. You can find it here.

Update: the photo of Kady was taken when she was the faux speaker of the House of Commons during a mock-session with Queen’s University students.