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17 May

The Province launched crowd-funding campaign for alleged Rob Ford crack-cocaine video

<p>Several crowd-funding campaigns have cropped up to see the now infamous video that allegedly shows Toronto mayor Rob Ford, including one by Vancouver tabloid <em>The Province</em><span>.</span></p><script src="http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?width=620&deepLinkEmbedCode=BjNGtwYjqofwUQkCWzrjkIugIN3SXEeE&height=348&embedCode=BjNGtwYjqofwUQkCWzrjkIugIN3SXEeE&video_pcode=xobms6AdYCCdgiz_Qwxh2JOYMmEU"></script><p> </p>

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17 May

Opinion: Rob Ford stole the show on a frenzied news night

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By Nick Taylor-Vaisey, for <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/rob-ford-stole-the-show-on-a-frenzied-news-night/">Maclean's</a></strong></p><p>Shocking news is hard to believe. Last night, there was lots of news, plenty of it shocking. The sun was setting on another day, literally, when newsrooms tore up their front pages and started from scratch.</p>

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17 May

Opinion: The National Newspaper Awards don’t reflect journalism in the digital era

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p dir="ltr">Gird yourself, I’m about to attack a Canadian journalism institution: <a href="http://www.nna-ccj.ca/" target="_blank" title="Honouring the best in Canadian Journalism since 1949" rel="noopener">The National Newspaper Awards</a>.</p><p>It has taken me a couple of weeks to write this post. No, scratch that. This has been years in the making.</p>

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17 May

The Gawker-Toronto Star cat fight about the Rob Ford “exclusive”

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Gawker.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>Last night, Gawker posted a video for sale allegedly starring Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. The video became the subject of a frenzied discussion on Twitter, with many cautioning about libel laws. And then started the hilarious cat fight on Twitter about who got the "exclusive."</strong></p>

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17 May

B.C. polling gaffe a blessing for journalism

<p><strong>By Rob Washburn, J-Source Innovation editor</strong></p><p>There are a lot of pollsters pacing the floor in office towers across British Columbia after an abysmal performance predicting election results Tuesday night</p><p>But what is bad for the polling business may be good for journalism. The results of the provincial election in British Columbia has pollsters scratching their collective heads as the Liberals won handily over the NDP. </p>

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16 May

Windsor U student newspaper will cut 5 positions, reduce staff salaries

<p><em>The Lance</em> will be cutting at least five staff positions and will reduce the salaries of remaining staff following a new budget approved by the University of Windsor Student Alliance last week.</p>

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16 May

CBC Newfoundland and Labrador wins 8 gold awards at Atlantic Journalism Awards

<p> </p><p>CBC Newfoundland and Labrador swept the Atlantic Journalism Awards, picking up 8 gold awards including best multimedia feature, breaking news on radio and online news reporting. Here is the complete list of winners and finalists, according to the <a href="http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=2105116003&view=21282-0&Start=&htm=0">press release</a>.</p><p><strong>Online News Reporting</strong></p><p>Gold: Newsroom - CBC News - St. John's, NL - Tropical Storm Leslie.</p>

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16 May

New anchor at Global Montreal News Final; BBM numbers show Morning Show struggling

<p>Elysia Bryan-Baynes has been named the new anchor of Global Montreal News Final show. She takes over from Richard Dagenais, who now hosts the network’s morning show.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Big congrats to @<a href="https://twitter.com/ebbaynes">ebbaynes</a>, named anchor for nightly 11pm News Final on @<a href="https://twitter.com/global_montreal">global_montreal</a>. A great journalist committed to her community.</p>

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16 May

La Presse reporter Laura-Julie Perreault named Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellow

<p>La Presse reporter Laura-Julie Perreault has been named the Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow.</p><p>Perreault will join 11 other foreign journalists and 12 American journalists as Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. She plans to issues facing women combatants as well as state building and democratization in post-dictatorial states.. The fellowship provides a stipend for living expenses and tuitions fees at Harvard University for a year.</p>

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16 May

Ray Guy: a fan’s farewell

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/RayGuy-1LR-BW-LOCKE.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Greg Locke</em></p><p><strong>By Susan Newhook</strong></p><p style="margin-left:11.35pt;"><em>A tiny preface: King's journalism grad and St. John's Telegram reporter Daniel McEachern (@TelegramDaniel) tweeted on Wednesday:</em></p>

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