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23 May

Neil Reynolds remembered

<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/Reynolds_0.jpg" title="" />Veteran newspaper editor Neil Reynolds, aged 72, died of cancer on Sunday. He is being remembered as one of the finest journalists in the country for his many contributions in newspapers across Canada.</p>

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23 May

Newsana looking for a community intern (unpaid)

<p><em>See the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/newsana-looking-community-interns-fall-term-unpaid">updated internship listing here</a>.</em></p><p>There’s simply too much content out there. Ask anyone, and they’ll probably tell you that they’re tired of sifting through it all to find the good stuff.</p><p>We certainly are.</p>

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23 May

Everything journalists need to know about “Crackgate”

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Screengrab.jpg" title="" /></p>

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23 May

Chequebook journalism: Should news outlets pay for the alleged video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Gawker.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Edward Tubb</strong></p><p>A major politician smokes crack-cocaine, and does it on video – even as a hypothetical, it’s difficult to think of a more tantalizing, or potentially damaging, news tip.</p>

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22 May

Letter to the editor: Three things that don’t stand up in Basen’s column on journalists and public relations

<p><strong>By Paul Knox</strong></p><p>Readers will make up their own minds about Ira Basen’s contention that <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-why-all-journalists-should-study-public-relations">all journalists should study public relations</a>. But here are three things in Basen’s recent J-Source piece that don’t stand up:</p>

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22 May

The universal challenge of digital news: Why working as an online journalist isn’t all that different in Canada and Ghana

<p><em>Travelling to West Africa to work as a digital journalist, Global News online editor <strong>Ashley Terry</strong> expected there would be differences in how reporters get and tell stories. But what she didn't expect was to face some of the same challenges that online journalists see here in Canada.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/ashleyafrica.png" title="" /></p>

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22 May

Opinion: The press owes the public more than repeating gossip on the alleged Ford video

<p><strong>By Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith Fullerton</strong></p><p>Much of the Canadian press has bet its credibility that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was indeed caught smoking crack on a smart-phone video that <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/16/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal.html">two <em>Toronto Star </em>reporters</a> viewed in the back seat of car.</p>

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20 May

Opinion: Media’s latest stories on Toronto’s Mayor Ford a challenge for a court fight

<p><strong>By Paul Benedetti, J-Source Editor-at-Large</strong></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The latest Mayor Rob Ford scandal reminds me of a teaching example I have used for several years now.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Each spring I teach new journalism students and one of our first lessons is about the real role of a reporter.</span></p>

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17 May

Sun News denies Duffy lobbied CRTC for mandatory carriage; network hires former CRTC commissioner

<p> </p><p>Sun News Network says Conservative senator Mike Duffy did not lobby the CRTC on its behalf for mandatory carriage, the <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/17/radioactive-mike-duffy-has-nothing-to-do-with-crtc-bid-sun-news-exec-says/">National Post reported</a>.</p><p>“He’s not doing anything for us, formally or informally,” Teneycke told the <em>Post</em>. “I don’t know how much more explicit I can be than that.”</p>

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17 May

Opinion: Crackgate – Star’s rush to publish alleged Rob Ford crack-cocaine story unsatisfactory

<p><strong>By John Gordon Miller</strong></p>

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