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20 Aug

Updated: Body of missing sports editor found

<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/Steve Pettibone_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p>Police have found the body of missing <em>Brockville Recorder and Times </em>sports editor Steve Pettibone near where his car was found abandoned.</p><p><a href="http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/08/20/body-of-missing-ontario-sports-reporter-found-no-foul-play-suspected">QMI Agency reports</a> that foul play is not suspected in Pettibone’s death.</p>

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19 Aug

Brockville Recorder and Times sports editor Steve Pettibone is missing

<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/Steve Pettibone_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Brockville Recorder and Times</em> sports editor Steve Pettibone is missing.</p>

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19 Aug

What good luck and kind people meant for a Brandon Sun reporter’s flood coverage

<p><strong>By Julie McCann, Field Notes Editor</strong></p><p>It was a Friday at noon in early July 2014 and <em>Brandon Sun</em> reporter Graeme Bruce needed a club sandwich and a place to collect his thoughts. He was on day three of a tour of the flood-damaged communities of southwestern Manitoba for a feature series. A coffee shop in Deloraine, about 100 km south of Brandon, Man., seemed like just the place.</p>

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19 Aug

Walrus editor John Macfarlane to retire

<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/John Macfarlane_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>John Macfarlane, editor and co-publisher of <em>The Walrus</em>, has <a href="http://thewalrus.ca/john-macfarlane-announcement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> he will retire at the end of 2014.</p><p>Macfarlane joined <em>The Walrus</em> in July 2008.</p>

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19 Aug

CBC ombudsman: Can an analyst with a partisan past provide balance?

<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/Esther Enkin_32.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p><p>SUMMARY</p>

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19 Aug

Toronto Star Master Glass: Image stabilization

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p><p>Here, <em>Toronto Star</em> video journalist <strong>Randy Risling</strong> explains how to best utilize image stabilization in your photography.</p>

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18 Aug

The future of immigrant journalism in Canada

<p><strong>By George Abraham</strong></p><p>I was never cut out to be a pioneer or an entrepreneur; risk-taking is just not in my DNA. My friends know me as a follower rather than a leader: a conformist. </p>

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18 Aug

The Tyee brings reader-funded reporter to Parliament Hill

<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/Jeremy Nuttall_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The Tyee has brought Jeremy Nuttall, a new reader-funded reporter, to Parliament Hill.</p><p>The Ottawa-based reporter is part of The Tyee’s plan to expand nationally. The Vancouver-based online publication successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign last year to raise $100,000 towards the expansion.</p>

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18 Aug

Seamus O’Regan seeks Liberal nomination

<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/Seamus O'Regan_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Former CTV journalist Seamus O’Regan is seeking the federal Liberal nomination in the Newfoundland riding of St. John's South-Mount Pearl, <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/seamus-o-regan-seeks-federal-liberal-nomination-1.1964345" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Canadian Press reported</a>.</p>

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18 Aug

Trends in journalism education in Canada: What’s being cut?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/University class_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</em></p>

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