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21 Oct

Opinion: Community newspapers do more than fluffy, “happy news” stories

<p><strong>By Dale Bass</strong></p><p>In recent weeks, I've listened to an editor at a daily newspaper talk about how the industry is not thriving and that journalism students might have to start out their careers in small locales working for community newspapers.</p><p>If they're lucky, this editor continued, they might get to work at a small daily at some point in their careers.</p>

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21 Oct

Rabble fires editor Derrick O’Keefe amidst controversy

<p><strong>By Laurent Bastien Corbeil</strong></p><p>Online magazine Rabble.ca has laid off editor Derrick O’Keefe. The news was first announced on O’Keefe’s Twitter feed on October 7 and sparked the resignation of one of his colleagues.</p><p>“Effective October 4, Derrick O’Keefe will no longer be acting as Rabble’s editor,” Rabble said in a statement. “We thank him for his contributions in this role over the past year and wish him all the best in his future endeavours.”</p>

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21 Oct

Ward’s Words: Putting transparency in its place

<p><strong>By Stephen Ward</strong></p><p>Transparency, according to optimistic accounts, is the answer to bad government and wrong doing by corporations and news media. Let the “sunshine” of transparency enter the public domain and watch these evil forces retreat.</p><p>Transparency—monitoring how agencies operate—goes back to the trumpeting of “publicity” as a check on secretive government in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.</p>

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19 Oct

CBC ombudsman: No bias in Zimmerman trial headline

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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19 Oct

Star public editor: Star need not take all responsibility for perception gap

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of <em>The Toronto Star</em></strong></p>

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19 Oct

Globe public editor: The Fords, the facts and the use of anonymous sources

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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17 Oct

Pierre Craig: lutter contre la culture du secret

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/608757_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>Le Devoir révélait ce matin la candidature d’un premier homme à la présidence de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ), en la personne de Pierre Craig, animateur de l’émission <em>La Facture</em> depuis dix ans à l’antenne de Radio-Canada et vice-président de la FPJQ depuis l’an dernier.

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17 Oct

Multimedia journalism is like sex in junior high: Garcia

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson, Education Editor</strong></p><p dir="ltr">Media consultant <a href="http://garciamedia.com/blog/" target="_blank" title="Follow Mario's blog here" rel="noopener">Mario Garcia</a> was at the <em><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/index.html" target="_blank" title="Ottawacitizen.com" rel="noopener">Ottawa Citizen</a></em> today to share his thoughts on a new wave in storytelling, in which four platforms (mobile, tablet, web and print) are considered at the conception of a story.</p>

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17 Oct

L’outil d’analyse des contrats publics de Branchez-Vous est à prendre avec des pincettes

<p><strong>Branchez-Vous a lancé au début du mois un analyseur de contrats publics québécois, outil web sensé permettre aux journalistes de données de s’y retrouver dans le Système électronique d’appel d’offres (SEAO) publié depuis le printemps sur le portail de données ouvertes du gouvernement québécois, et de ce fait, consultable par tous. Un outil qui comporte cependant certaines limites.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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17 Oct

CBC journalist Laurie Graham joins CTV as Ottawa deputy bureau chief

<p>CBC journalist Laurie Graham is joining CTV Ottawa as its deputy bureau chief, tweeted the network’s parliamentary bureau chief Robert Fife.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Pleased to announce respected CBC journalist Laurie Graham joins CTV's Ottawa Bureau as Deputy Bureau Chief. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cdnpol&src=hash">#cdnpol</a></p>

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