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26 Nov

Scribble Chat: Covering Protests in Real Time

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26 Nov

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to shoot a scrum

<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>Toronto Star</em> photographer David Cooper explains the process of shooting wide angle with a flash in very tight, very busy spaces.</p>

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26 Nov

Fatal Care: Fighting for records in Alberta

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/EJ Fatal Care_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Karen Kleiss, for the <a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/children-in-care/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Edmonton Journal</em></a></strong></p><p>This project started in 2009 with a single question: How many children have died in provincial care?</p>

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25 Nov

Leur Lac-Mégantic

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25 Nov

Pierre Craig, nouveau président de la FPJQ

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/608757_2.jpg" title="" />L’animateur de la Facture, à l’antenne de Radio-Canada, a été élu par acclamation en fin de semaine, par des membres réunis, plus nombreux que jamais, en congrès au Château Frontenac de Québec. Il s’inscrit dans la continuité et bataillera sur le terrain de la protection des sources et de l’accès à l’information.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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25 Nov

Meagan Perry new interim editor-in-chief of Rabble.ca

<p><em>Rabble.ca</em> has appointed Meagan Perry as its new interim editor-in-chief after the online magazine fired Derrick O’Keefe last month.</p><p>O’Keefe, who had been working as editor since April 2012, claimed he was fired without cause on a week’s notice, and his departure was followed with the resignation of one of his colleagues, Ethan Cox.</p>

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25 Nov

Updated: Waterloo Region Record centralizing copydesk with sister Metroland newspaper Hamilton Spectator

<p>The <em>Waterloo Region</em> <em>Record</em> will centralize editorial page production in early 2014 at the <em>Hamilton Spectator. </em>Fourteen copy-editing jobs will be lost at the daily Waterloo, Ont., paper, which covers Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge.</p>

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22 Nov

Globe public editor: Careful what you call a ‘miracle’

<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_17.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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22 Nov

No chequebook journalism at Toronto Star: Public Editor

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Kathy English_10.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> does not pay sources for interviews. That means no one scores cash for telling the <em>Star</em>’s reporters what they know.</p>

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22 Nov

American report on press freedom has implications for Canadian journalists

<p><strong>By Angela MacKenzie</strong><br /><br />A new report, <em><a href="http://www.freepress.net/resource/105079/acts-journalism-defining-press-freedom-digital-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acts of Journalism—Defining Press Freedom in the Digital Age</a>,</em> stresses that the U.S. needs new policies to protect all acts of journalism committed by professional and citizen journalists.</p>

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