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11 Aug

Ombudswoman: Brunswick News needs more female voices

<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/Patricia Graham_11.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Patricia Graham, Brunswick News ombudswoman</strong></p><p>The timing was serendipitous. In late June, three university professors published a research paper titled “Where are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages”. The answer was neither unusual nor unfamiliar: they are still too few and far between on opinion pages.</p>

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11 Aug

Public editor: Why can’t the Toronto Star interview Omar Khadr?

<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/Kathy English_39.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>Guantanamo’s child is all grown up now, a man imprisoned since the age of 15 and prepared to tell his own story.</p>

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8 Aug

Grant Ellis named general manager of BNN

<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/Grant Ellis_2.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Grant Ellis is the new general manager of BNN.</p><p>Ellis, who joined BNN after seven years at the <em>Financial Post, </em>will be responsible for day-to-day operations and strategic vision of the business channel owned by Bell Media. He will report to Wendy Freeman, president of CTV News.</p>

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7 Aug

A moment of silence for CBC in Thunder Bay

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CBC TB funeral.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>On June 28, CBC listeners attended a mock funeral in Thunder Bay, Ont., complete with a casket symbolizing Voyage North which airs its last show on Aug. 8. All photos courtesy of Josh Lynn.</em></p><p><strong>By Josh Lynn</strong></p>

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7 Aug

Globe public editor: Crowd estimate depends on your point of view

<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/Sylvia Stead_26.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>So, just how many people were at two recent events in the country? The short answer is, it depends on a rough estimate and who is doing the estimate.</p>

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7 Aug

Canadian magazine sales down 4.8% in first half of 2014

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Magazine_11.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Illustration courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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6 Aug

Gazette announces team for four-platform strategy

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Montreal Gazette_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Illustration courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Montreal’s <em>The Gazette </em>has named four producers and four deputies to support the newsroom as it moves to Postmedia’s four-platform strategy.</p>

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5 Aug

Canada Wide Media axes BCLiving’s Chinese edition

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Canada Wide Media has pulled the plug on the Chinese edition of <em>BCLiving</em> less than a year after the magazine’s launch.</p><p>Industry watchers were cautiously optimistic when Canada Wide expanded <em>BCLiving</em> with two print editions last November—an English version published 10 times a year and a Chinese quarterly—targeting women ages 34 to 45.</p>

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5 Aug

Toronto Star Master Glass: File recovery

<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>

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5 Aug

Alison Uncles joins Maclean’s as deputy editor

<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/Alison Uncles_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Alison Uncles will join <em>Maclean’s</em> as deputy editor on Sept. 2</p><p>Uncles, who is currently the associate editor for weekends and features at the <em>Toronto Star</em>, will fill the role vacated by Anne Marie Owens, who took the helm of the <em>National Post</em> in June.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

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