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29 Mar

Storify launches new paid model for media outlets

<p><a href="http://storify.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Storify</a> launched a business model last Friday with a new premium service designed for media organizations called <a href="http://storify.com/storify/storify-announces-vip-plan-partners-with-wordpress">Storify VIP</a>. </p>

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29 Mar

Long-time Quill and Quire editor Susan Lawrence passed away

<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Long-time </span><em style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">Quill and Quire </em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">editor Susan Lawrence died from cancer </span><a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/quillblog/in-memoriam-susan-lawrence/" style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;">last week</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjus

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29 Mar

Ontario’s sunshine list: Where is the money in journalism?

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>It's an oft-said phrase: Don't get into journalism if you want to make money. So J-Source combed through the <a href="http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/pssd/">Ontario Sunshine list</a>* released on Friday to see if any journalist or those in a related field make salaries above $100,000. To qualify, this list is just for individuals who get their paycheques either indirectly or directly from the province.</p>

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29 Mar

Pourquoi les jeunes s’informent d’abord sur Internet?

<p> </p><p><strong>La toute <a href="http://www.cefrio.qc.ca/media/uploader/NETendances5finalwebLR.pdf">dernière enquête NETendances du CEFRIO</a> révèle que pour 44 % des 18-24 ans, Internet est la principale source d'information pour consulter l'actualité, contre 33 % pour la presse écrite et seulement 15 % pour la télévision.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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27 Mar

The challenges of bringing diversity into a newsroom: SAJA panel examines how South Asian stories are covered in Canada

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p>

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27 Mar

Grands changements à l’information internationale à Radio-Canada

<p> </p><p>La direction de l’information de Radio-Canada a annoncé d’importants changements dans la couverture internationale, mercredi, lors d’une conférence de presse téléphonique.</p>

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27 Mar

Quelle place donne-t-on aux journalistes dans les séries dramatiques québécoises?

<p> </p><p><em>Par Samuel Larochelle</em></p><p><strong><em>Scoop, Lance et compte, Virginie, Réseaux, Rumeurs</em> et <em>Toute la vérité</em> ont toutes une chose en commun : la présence d’au moins un journaliste parmi leurs personnages principaux. Pourtant, peu d’entre elles se sont réellement approchées de la réalité des médias, en près de 25 ans de télévision. </strong></p>

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26 Mar

CTV orders new Canadian talk show

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><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/The Social.PNG" title="" /></p><p>Canadian audiences will get a brand new lifestyle talk show this fall courtesy of CTV. <em>The Social</em> is a daily one-hour show “developed to deliver a unique Canadian voice to the CTV daytime schedule, in addition to providing custom opportunities for CTV’s advertising partners.”</p>

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26 Mar

Toronto Star union proposes salary cuts to save radio room

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The Toronto Star union proposed cutting radio room reporter salaries by 20 per cent as an alternative to outsourcing the work.</p>

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26 Mar

Ford calls Toronto Star staff ‘pathological liars’

<p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> headlined Tuesday with a story of an "intoxicated" Mayor Rob Ford being asked to leave a gala event. Mayor Ford then accused <em>The Star</em> of continuing its vendetta against him, and called its staff "pathological liars." And so the acerbic battle between the mayor and the city's largest daily continues. J-Source has the round-up of videos, tweets and articles on this. </p>

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