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4 Jul

How to ‘wow’ during a newsroom internship interview

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p>Recently I was contacted by a candidate who had been short-listed for the Ottawa Citizen’s year-long internship opportunities.</p><p>(Note: all our interns are paid positions. Understatement: <a href="http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/27/court-case-awakens-sleeping-giant-of-unpaid-internships/" target="_blank" title="U.S. federal judge rules Fox Searchlight's internships violated labour laws" rel="noopener">This has become a hot topic recently</a>.)</p>

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4 Jul

Shades of language: Looking into Canadian media coverage of Quebec

<p><strong>By Shannon O’Reilly, </strong><strong>for <a href="http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/557432"><em>Convergence</em></a></strong></p><p>Pauline Marois hadn’t even been sworn in as Quebec’s new premier before debate began that a move to ensure French as the predominant language would mean a lesser voice for the En­glish speaking population.</p>

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4 Jul

Twitter et les journalistes: les 26 règles d’or de Steve Ladurantaye

<p><em>Par Steve Ladurantaye – <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/twitter-rules-journalists-here-are-26-steve-ladurantayes">Traduction d’un article paru sur J-Source.ca, le 25 juin 2013</a></em></p><p>Lorsque je me suis fait demander si je me fixais des règles quant à mon utilisation de Twitter, je me suis dit qu’il y avait, en effet, cinq ou six principes que je tenais pour acquis.</p>

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3 Jul

Inside the Canadian military journalism course

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/3.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Lo</strong><strong>la Fakinlede </strong></p><p>Real stories about the military don’t come from public relations officers or official statements.</p><p>The real stories come from soldiers who go to the frontline – and, the only way to get those stories is to talk to the soldiers.</p>

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3 Jul

Postmedia’s digital revenue up amid staggering losses

<p>While Postmedia has continued to take a hit in print advertising and circulation revenue, digital revenues are actually up in <a href="http://www.postmedia.com/2013/07/03/postmedia-network-reports-third-quarter-results-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the latest quarter</a>. It's the first quarter since the newspaper chain implemented paywalls or paid subscription models at all of its newspapers' websites.</p>

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3 Jul

Popoli: les risques du métier

<p><strong>En juin 2011, Nyemb Popoli, caricaturiste vedette au Cameroun, a fini aux urgences après avoir été violemment tabassé par les forces de police. Son crime? Être le patron d’un journal satirique, le Popoli, devenu en dix ans l’un des plus gros tirages de ce pays d’Afrique centrale peu avide de démocratie.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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2 Jul

Judge’s ruling gives media lawyers access to warrants sought by media outlets

<p>Toronto and national news media have scored a small win in the battle to unseal search warrants that they say may contain links to Toronto mayor Rob Ford and the alleged video of him smoking crack cocaine.</p><p>Ontario court judge Philip Downes <a href="http://www.680news.com/2013/07/02/project-traveller-search-warrants-must-be-unsealed-for-media-lawyers-judge-rules/">ruled Tuesday</a> that the Crown must hand over the documents to media lawyers by Aug. 27 so they can form arguments for having the materials made public.</p>

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2 Jul

Journalistes: 7 raisons d’utiliser Evernote

<p><strong>Je n’ai rien contre Twitter. Mais si j’avais à choisir un gagnant dans la catégorie «Plus fidèle compagnon du journaliste après Microsoft Word», mon choix est sans équivoque: Evernote. Voici comment devenir un pro d’Evernote.</strong></p><p><em>Par Steve Proulx - </em><a href="http://37eavenue.com/blog/journalistes-7-raisons-dutiliser-evernote/"><em>Article paru sur 37<sup>e</sup> avenue, le 1<sup>er</sup> juillet 2013</em></a></p>

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2 Jul

Robin Taylor, former executive producer of CBC’s The Fifth Estate and head of current affairs programming, has died

<p>Longtime CBC journalist Robinson “Robin” Taylor died on June 12, 2013 at age 80 in Basingstoke, England.</p><p>Before becoming the executive producer of CBC's <em>The Fifth Estate</em> and later CBC's head of current affairs programming, Taylor held posts at CBC Winnipeg, CBC Edmonton and CBC St. John's. It was in Newfoundland that Taylor started “Here and Now” with Bill Donovan and Bob Cole, filling a void left when a news reader moved from NTV to join the Trudeau government.</p>

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2 Jul

Journalistes anglo et franco: deux solitudes?

<p><strong>Réunis à l’invitation de l’Association des communicateurs scientifiques (ACS), quatre journalistes couvrant les sciences dans différents médias canadiens ont échangé sur la pratique de leur métier. Autour de la table, deux francos et deux anglos. L’occasion de se demander si la couverture du sujet demeure la même selon que l’on s’adresse à un public de langue française ou anglaise.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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