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30 Oct

CBC ombudsman: Talking about Quebec’s proposed charter raises sensitive issues

<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_5.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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30 Oct

CBC ombudsman: Balance maintained in coverage of sex ed in Calgary schools

<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_1.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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30 Oct

Furlong drops suit against Georgia Straight for story accusing him of abusing students

<p><strong>By Bob Mackin, for <em>The Tyee</em></strong></p><p>Former Vancouver 2010 Olympics CEO John Furlong revealed he is no longer suing the <em>Georgia Straight </em>newspaper for its story accusing him of abusing students when he taught as a young man in Burns Lake, B.C., but he vowed to "escalate" legal actions against the author of the article, Laura Robinson.</p><p>Robinson's lawyer told <em>The Tyee</em> the journalist looks forward to defending her story against Furlong's defamation claims.</p>

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30 Oct

Des médias régionaux trop fragiles

<p><strong>La semaine dernière, <em>Projet J </em>révélait une tentative de bâillonnement de la part d’Hydro-Québec sur un média régional, en l’occurrence Point de vue Sainte-Agathe, dans les Laurentides. Une tentative d’ingérence qui vient rappeler toutes les pressions, politiques et économiques, avec lesquelles les journalistes en région doivent jongler. Et qui les portent parfois à abdiquer et à choisir l’autocensure.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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30 Oct

Caméra cachée et entrevue-surprise, des méthodes à utiliser avec parcimonie

<p><strong>RIO-DE-JANEIRO - Quand et pourquoi est-il acceptable pour des journalistes d’utiliser des caméras cachées, ou de faire appel à des entrevues-surprises? Voilà l’un des thèmes abordés à la mi-octobre à Rio de Janeiro, à l’occasion de la huitième conférence internationale du Global Investigative Journalism Network, et à laquelle plus de mille journalistes des quatre coins du monde assistaient.</strong></p><p><em>Propos recueillis par Kinia Adamczyk, collaboratrice à Rio de Janeiro, journaliste à la recherche à TVA</em></p>

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30 Oct

Jennifer Martin stepping down as co-host of Alberta Primetime

<p>Jennifer Martin is stepping down as co-host of CTV’s <em>Alberta Primetime</em> after four years with the show. She will join Shaw Communications as manager of programming for northern Alberta in November.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>So going to miss my colleagues <a href="https://twitter.com/ABPrimetime">@ABPrimetime</a>, 25 yrs on air & heading into mgmt, more to come on Monday's show!</p>

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30 Oct

Marc Riddell joins Global BC as managing editor, digital

<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/Riddell.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /></p><p>Marc Riddell joined Global BC as its first managing editor, digital, on Oct. 28.</p><p>Previously, Riddell worked as executive producer of news at CBC Vancouver and executive producer of CBC’s <em>Power and Politics with Evan Solomon</em>. He also worked with Global National and was key in helping re-launch BC1’s 7 pm talk show <em>Unfiltered</em>.</p><p> </p>

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30 Oct

TC Media redesigns 160 local news websites

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Truro Daily News.JPG" title="" /></p><p>TC Media has launched newly redesigned websites for all of its 160 local newspapers across Canada.</p><p>The new design puts a greater emphasis on content, photo and video galleries. It also features a simpler navigation menu as well as a new events calendar.</p>

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30 Oct

Postmedia reports loss of nearly $36 million in fourth quarter

<p>Postmedia Network <a href="http://www.postmedia.com/2013/10/24/postmedia-network-reports-fourth-quarter-results-2/">reported</a> a loss of nearly $36 million in the last quarter and the media company said it doesn't expect any improvements next year.</p>

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29 Oct

Misidentification of protestors constitutes code breach: Canadian Broadcast Standards Council

<p>The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) released its <a href="http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2013/131023.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> concerning an episode of <em>The Source</em> broadcast on Sun News Network on January 23, 2013. The host of the public affairs discussion program misidentified protestors in a video clip. The CBSC found the station in violation of the CAB Code of Ethics for the error.

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