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2 Apr

Honour among thieves: Putting the story before your ego

<p><em>What's more important: exclusivity or a great story? A new model of cooperative journalism being developed at the Toronto Star is helping to break news, and the traditional practice of keeping information from competitors. Here in J-source, Star investigative reporter <strong>Robert Cribb</strong> explains how sharing resources led to better journalism in a series on Canadian child sex tourists.</em></p>

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6 Mar

The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?

<p><em>The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment. </em></p><p><strong>By Paul Weinberg</strong></p><p> </p>

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17 Dec

Grilling the Guest – Laurier LaPierre and the Hot Seat Interview

<p><em>Laurier LaPierre, who died Sunday at the age of 83, was a pioneer in modern television broadcasting. His flamboyant style was designed to engage and provoke, but ultimately to hold powerful people to account.</em></p><p><strong>By Cecil Rosner</strong></p><p> </p><p>As a pioneer of early CBC current affairs journalism, Laurier LaPierre made a lasting contribution to a key element of investigative work – the focused accountability interview.</p>

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24 Oct

Investigating private companies

<p>When it comes to investigating companies, it makes a huge difference whether the corporation is publicly-traded or privately-held.</p><p>Securities regulators ensure that public companies report certain types of information regularly. The best place online to find such information for Canadian companies is <a href="http://www.sedar.com">www.sedar.com</a></p><p>But it's a completely different story for private outfits. There are few mandatory reporting requirements. This means investigative journalists have to be more resourceful.</p>

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21 Sep

Tips on breaking into the sports journalism world from Fast Break event panellists

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Fastbreak.PNG" title="" /><em>Fast Break event panellists, from left to right: Chris Jones, Akil Augustine, Julie Scott, Tas Melas</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Steph Rogers</strong></p><p>No one said that breaking into the highly competitive sports media industry was easy.</p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: New Media

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: Broadcast/visual journalism

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: The Basics

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, <strong>Mary McGuire</strong> has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:</p>

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25 Apr

There’s opportunity in them sports fields

<p><em><strong>Malcolm Kelly </strong>gives a preview of a panel on sports journalism taking place at this weekend's CAJ Conference that will look at the revenue sports produces and the audience figures it draws that are, he says, the envy of more "serious" journalists.</em></p><p> </p><p>For years the denizens of the sports section were thought to hang out in the toy department.</p>

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9 Nov

Sean Holman says goodbye to Public Eye

<p><em>Over the last seven years anyone wanting to know more about who was pulling the levers of provincial politics in British Columbia inevitably turned to Public Eye, a unique online news source, created and doggedly maintained by journalist <strong>Sean Holman</strong>. After thousands of stories and many exclusives, Holman has now called it a day for Public Eye. Here he tells us in five lessons what worked and, ultimately, what failed. -- Bilbo Poynter</em></p><p><strong>Journalism might not be a cause worth donating to for most Canadians</strong></p>

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