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28 Aug

Jessica Barrett awarded the Michelle Lang Fellowship

<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/Barrett.JPG" title="" /> Postmedia Network has named Jessica Barrett the recipient of the 2013 Michelle Lang Fellowship in Journalism.</p><p>Barrett will spend six months reporting for the Postmedia Network in Ottawa, followed by another six months working for the <em>Calgary Herald</em>. She will also work on a special project about Canada’s changing workforce, job market and economy.</p>

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28 Aug

Centre of Media and Celebrity Studies launches in Canada

<p>Dismiss it all you like, but audiences have shown a deep desire for news about the entertainment world and celebrity gossip. Samita Nandy, a broadcast journalist with a PhD on fame from Australia's Curtin University, is the founding director of the new <a href="http://cmc-centre.com/">Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies</a>. The centre is the first of its kind in Canada and is housed in Mississauga.</p><p><strong>J-Source: How will this centre be a resource for journalists?</strong></p>

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28 Aug

Lac-Mégantic: communication de crise 101

<p><em>Ce texte est le premier d'une série de trois.</em> <em>Dans les deux prochains épisodes, les relationnistes évoquent la relation qui s'est instaurée avec les journalistes ainsi que les leçons qu'ils tirent de cette expérience.</em></p><p><em>par Chantal Francoeur, </em><em>professeure à l’école des médias de l’UQAM et membre du comité éditorial de ProjetJ</em></p>

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27 Aug

Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma creates guide on mental health reporting

<p>The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, in partnership with CBC News, has begun work on a comprehensive, Canadian guide to mental health reporting called <em>Mindset - Reporting on Mental Health.</em></p>

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27 Aug

Lac-Mégantic ne fait plus la une

<p><strong>La tragédie ferroviaire survenue en Estrie il y a presque deux mois a laissé sa place la semaine dernière à la polémique sur la Charte des valeurs, au palmarès des informations les plus citées dans les médias québécois, selon le classement hebdomadaire d’influence Communication.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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27 Aug

UPDATED: The Globe and Mail suspends delivery on Labour Day due to lack of advertising

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Globe.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> will not publish on Labour Day Monday due to a lack of advertising revenue for the long weekend issue.</p>

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27 Aug

Selon Statistique Canada, il n’y a pas moins de journalistes aujourd’hui que dix ans plus tôt

<p><em>Par Chad Skelton, du Vancouver Sun – Traduction d’un article paru sur <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/no-fewer-journalists-today-10-years-ago-statistics-canada">J-Source le 19 août 2013</a> et dans son intégralité, <a href="http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/08/19/no-fewer-journalists-today-than-10-years-ago-statistics-canada/">dans le Vancouver Sun le même jour</a>.</em><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Chad_1.jpeg" title="" /><em> </em></p>

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27 Aug

Live blog: Everything you need to know about court reporting in real-time

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27 Aug

Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma offers bursaries for freelance journalists

<p>The deadline for freelance journalists to apply for bursaries from the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma to help pay for the cost of hazardous environment training is fast approaching.</p><p>The <a href="http://journalismforum.fims.uwo.ca/competition2013.aspx">Forum Freelance Fund</a> is sponsored by CBC News and supported by Radio-Canada, Canada News Wire, Macintosh Media and individual contributions. Last year, the fund awarded bursaries to freelancers based in Afghanistan, Tunisia, China and Colombia, all of whose works appeared in Canadian media.</p>

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26 Aug

Opinion: We Need a Digital-First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism

<p><strong>By Cindy Royal, for <em>PBS MediaShift</em></strong></p><p>At the annual meeting of the <a href="http://aejmc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication</a> in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, one panel addressed adding programming skills to the curriculum: “<a href="http://blog.webjournalist.org/2013/08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why All Your Students Must Be Programmers</a>.”</p>

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