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27 May

Front commun pour l’indépendance de Radio-Canada/CBC

<p><strong>Début de semaine crucial pour le diffuseur public: les projets de loi C-461 et C-60 sont discutés en comité parlementaire aujourd’hui et demain. L’occasion de mettre la pression pour tenter de faire reculer le gouvernement.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p><p>C-60 et C-461. Derrière ces noms de code, deux projets de loi qui, selon de nombreux observateurs, tendent à remettre en cause l’indépendance de Radio-Canada/CBC à l’égard des pouvoirs publics.</p>

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27 May

Chronicle Herald Opinions editor Bev Dauphinee retires

<p><span style="line-height: 7.95pt;">The </span><em style="line-height: 7.95pt;">Chronicle Herald</em><span style="line-height: 7.95pt;">’s long-time Opinion editor Bev Dauphinee is retiring after 35 years with the newspaper. </span></p>

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27 May

CBC Ottawa reporter Julie Ireton named Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education

<p>CBC News Ottawa reporter Julie Ireton was named the Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She will develop a workshop on entrepreneurial journalism to help journalists market their skills, according to the <a href="http://www.michenerawards.ca/english/picfellows/picfellow2013.htm">press release</a>. Her project will eventually link Carleton University's Sprott School of Business and its School of Journalism to assist j-schools across the country and their students in these challenging times for job prospects.</p>

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27 May

Winnipeg Free Press restricts online comments to subscribers in effort to reduce “digital diatribe”

<p>The <em>Winnipeg Free Pre</em>ss is restricting its online comments to print and online subscribers in an effort to <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/keeping-the-e-party-going-without-the-party-crashers-208927251.html">keep “the e-party going without the party-crashers.”</a></p><p>The newspaper’s editor Paul Samyn said the new commenting policy designed to reduce the "digital diatribe" will go into effect on June 3. </p>

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25 May

OPINION: Video, shmideo: reporting is about telling what you see and hear

<p><strong>By Ivor Shapiro</strong></p><div><p>In the beginning was the word from Gawker. And on the second day, there came a <em>Toronto Star</em> story, and evening became morning, and then a full-blown scandal was on every front page, every newscast, and lo, the <a href="http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?videoPackage=134643">Daily Show</a> saw that it was good, or at least funny.</p>

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24 May

Why hasn’t Mayor Rob Ford sued the Toronto Star?

<p><strong>By J-Source Law editor Thomas Rose</strong></p>

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23 May

UPDATED: Edmonton Journal wins four feature writing awards

<p>The <a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Journal+scores+four+feature+journalism+awards/8420038/story.html"><em>Edmonton Journa</em>l</a> has won four awards at the <a href="http://featuresjournalism.org/2013/05/22/winners-announced-25th-annual-features-journalism-contest/">Society for Features Journalism</a> 25th annual Excellence in Feature Writing Contest. </p>

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23 May

Live blog: Broadcast Educators Association of Canada conference

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23 May

CJF J-Talk live blog: Are We Getting What We Deserve From Sports Reporters?

<p><script src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/js/LiveArticleEmbed.aspx?Id=74667&ThreadId=107459" type="text/javascript"></script></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe align="center" frameborder="0" height="800" src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=107459&ThemeId=11280" style="border: 0px solid #000" width="600"></iframe></p>

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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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