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15 Oct

Live blog: The changing relationship between journalism, brands and storytelling

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15 Oct

CBC launches new local program in six largest markets

<p>CBC is expanding its local coverage with new, one-hour television programs in its six largest markets.</p><p>The local shows—called <em>Our Toronto</em>, <em>Our Vancouver</em>, <em>Our Calgary</em>, <em>Our Edmonton</em>, <em>Our Montreal</em> and <em>Our Ottawa</em>—started last weekend and will air on Sundays and Mondays at 11 a.m., as well as Saturday at 6 a.m. In a memo to staff, CBC News general manager and editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire said the shows bring the public broadcaster’s local programming to 14 hours a week in those markets.  </p>

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11 Oct

Star public editor: Columnists free to express outrageous opinions

<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_6.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>“I’m wondering if you can clarify whether it is the <em>Star</em>’s official position that cyclists should be shot . . . ,” a reader wrote to me this week. “Looking forward to your clarification on the execution of cyclists comment.”</p>

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11 Oct

Globe public editor: Why John Greyson’s sexuality was relevant to Wente’s column

<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/Stead_6.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Columnists are encouraged to offer strong and often contrary opinions. Their columns are meant to spark a conversation.</p>

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11 Oct

CBC Newfoundland and Labrador apologizes for controversial column on Innu

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10 Oct

Live blog: Tom Rosenstiel on the future of news

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10 Oct

Update: City puts Bulldog Ottawa back on emailed press release list

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10 Oct

Remembering Vancouver Sun cartoonist Roy Peterson

<p><strong>By Bob Krieger, for <em><a href="http://thetyee.ca/Life/2013/10/02/Roy-Peterson-Fearless-Cartoonist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tyee</a></em></strong></p><p>Aside from being an incredibly kind, humble, hilarious, brilliant and elegant gentleman, Roy Peterson happened to be a world class editorial cartoonist. He won more National Newspaper Awards than any other journalist, the Order of Canada, and more awards and honours than he or a mathematician could count.</p>

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10 Oct

Les enjeux démocratiques de la «crise de l’information» au sein de la presse écrite quotidienne au Québec

<p><em>Note de lecture de la Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme de l'Université d'Ottawa</em></p><p><em>Carolane Gratton, étudiante à la maîtrise en communication à l'Université d'Ottawa</em></p><p>De 2000 à 2010, la crise de l’information au sein de la presse écrite québécoise a provoqué une perte de pouvoir des syndicats et un affaiblissement du modèle d’autorégulation des médias québécois, alors qu’un nombre grandissant de journaux se retire du Conseil de presse du Québec.</p>

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9 Oct

La mort de Paul Desmarais et l’avenir de Gesca

<p><strong>L’homme le plus riche du Québec, propriétaire de Power Corporation et de sa filiale médiatique Gesca, est décédé la nuit dernière à l’âge de 86 ans. Quel impact cette disparition aura sur le paysage médiatique québécois? Gesca restera-t-elle dans le giron de la famille Desmarais? Différentes analyses s’affrontent.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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