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5 Nov

PressProgress: a new way of covering news from Parliament Hill

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/PressProgress.JPG" title="" /></p><p>Under the direction of editor Sarah Schmidt, a veteran reporter of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, <a href="http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/front" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PressProgress</a> is a new news site from Ottawa with the support of the Broadbent Institute. The site launched on Oct. 28.</p><p><strong>J-Source: Give us the elevator pitch for PressProgress. What exactly do you hope it will do?</strong></p>

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5 Nov

94 layoffs at Rogers Media

<p>Rogers Media President Keith Pelley said 94 staff had been laid off from the company. These layoffs, which represent about two per cent of the company, follow an earlier round of cuts in May when the company shut down its 24-hours news CityNews Channel and laid off 62 employees.</p>

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5 Nov

CJFE honours Chilean coup whistleblower

<p>Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is honouring Bob Thomson as the second ever recipient of its Integrity Award, to be presented at its 16th annual gala on December 4 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.</p><p>Four decades ago, General Augusto Pinochet and the Armed Forces of Chile overthrew the democratic government of President Salvador Allende. In the violence that followed, thousands of Chileans were killed or disappeared and tens of thousands were detained, tortured and imprisoned.</p>

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5 Nov

Memo on layoffs at Rogers Media

<p><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/94-layoffs-rogers-media">Read the related article</a></p><p><strong>Driving our business to emerge even stronger</strong></p>

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5 Nov

The Tyee looks to expand nationally

<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/77548585" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe></p><p><em>Video courtesy of The Tyee</em></p><p><em>The Tyee</em>, an award-winning B.C.-based magazine has decided to expand its <a href="https://support.thetyee.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coverage nationally</a>. <em>The Tyee</em>’s editor-in-chief, David Beers, explains this bold venture and what it will take for that vision to be realized.</p><p><strong>J-Source: What made you decide to make <em>The Tyee</em> national?</strong></p>

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5 Nov

Quelle place pour les communautés dans les médias québécois?

<p><strong>Dans la foulée du débat sur la Charte des valeurs québécoises, qui a occupé journalistes et chroniqueurs durant toute la fin de l’été, <em>Projet J </em>s’est intéressé à la place accordée aux différentes communautés dans les médias. Voici un résumé de cette série, pour tous ceux à qui elle aurait échappé.</strong></p>

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5 Nov

Rob Ford says reporters didn’t ask the correct questions about his crack use

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5 Nov

Catching a break in Nairobi: How two Canadian freelancers covered the Westgate mall shooting

<p><strong>By Adam Bemma</strong></p><p>Two recent Canadian journalism graduates, dreaming of careers as international journalists, caught the break of a lifetime while on <a href="http://www.akfc.ca/join-us/international-development.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fellowships with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada</a>.</p><p>Wanting to combine her passion for journalism and travel, French journalist Flavie Halais applied for, and was awarded, the international fellowship. "I dreamed of working abroad as a journalist covering international issues," she said.</p>

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5 Nov

«Le plus grand danger, c’est l’imprévisible»

<p><strong><em><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/martin_0.jpg" title="" />Projet J </em></strong><strong>s’est entretenu avec Martin Forgues ce matin alors même qu’il bouclait ses bagages. Le journaliste s’envole ce soir pour l’Afghanistan après avoir couvert en janvier dernier l’opération militaire française au nord-Mali, région d’Afrique dans laquelle deux journalistes français de RFI ont été assassinés le week-end dernier.

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5 Nov

A journalist’s guide to searching on Twitter

<p><strong>By Monique Beech, national community manager for Sun Media</strong></p><p>I had a request from a reporter recently asking me to help her find tweets sent out by a particular Twitter user on a specific day. Challenge accepted.</p>

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