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3 Dec

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to use an on-camera flash

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p><p>Here, <em>Star </em>photographer <strong>Andrew Francis Wallace</strong> explains how to light a subject using an on-camera flash.</p>

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2 Dec

Black Press shuts down Abbotsford/Mission Times

<p>Black Press Media has shut down the <em>Abbotsford/Mission Times</em>, a little more than a month after purchasing the B.C. paper from Glacier Media. The company also took down the <a href="http://www.abbotsfordtimes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newspaper’s website</a> and closed its Twitter account.</p><p>When asked why the company was shutting down a newspaper it considered a worthy purchase in October, Rick O’Connor, president and CEO of Black Media, told J-Source the newspaper was losing “too much revenue” and not making enough money on advertisements.</p>

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2 Dec

Globe public editor: What five questions about Rob Ford do you want answered?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_21.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>A week from today, assuming no appeals or setbacks, readers will be able to see almost all of the 500-page document police have pulled together in their investigation into Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.</p>

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2 Dec

Globe public editor: Stories with grammatical errors are not formally corrected

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_19.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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2 Dec

Star public editor: When transparency trumps independence

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1_3.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p>

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2 Dec

Hausse importante des plaintes à l’encontre de Radio-Canada

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/index_4.jpg" title="" />C’est ce que révèle le rapport annuel de l’ombudsman de la SRC, rendu public la semaine dernière. 1130 plaintes ont en effet concerné l’information durant la saison 2012-2013, contre seulement 690 en moyenne lors des cinq dernières années. Une hausse justifiée par l’effet combiné du conflit étudiant et de l’élection provinciale.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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29 Nov

CBC ombudsman: Elections change the rules on balanced reporting

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_19.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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29 Nov

Why we should care when a community newspaper shuts down

<p><em>When a community newspaper closes, it is a great loss. Still, publishers will argue it is the economic reality of the times. Many scholars argue the importance of community journalism to democracy and citizenship, often separately from the business decisions. The historic tension between public service and economics is longstanding. But, what if there is another set of lenses beyond journalism, political economy communications theory and other traditional disciplines to shed light on the significance of news media in rural Canada?

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29 Nov

Diversity of media ownership literally non-existent in Canada

<p><strong>By Paul Fontaine</strong></p><p>Diversity of media ownership is literally non-existent in Canada, according to a <a href="http://www.cmcrp.org/2013/11/04/growth-and-concentration-trends-in-the-english-language-network-media-economy-in-canada-2000-2012/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent post</a> by the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project (CMCRP).</p>

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29 Nov

Why the fifth estate created an animated documentary

<p><object height="322" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&clipId=2421264972&width=480&height=322" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="322" src="http://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&clipId=2421264972&width=480&height=322" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></embed></object></p>

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