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22 Mar

L’Avant-Garde: la communauté militaire de Québec aura son magazine

<p><strong>En mai prochain, Audrey Raby et son équipe publieront la première édition de L’Avant-Garde, un magazine bimensuel destiné à la communauté militaire de la région de Québec. Un potentiel de 40 000 lecteurs a été estimé.</strong></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Par Samuel Larochelle</i></p>

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22 Mar

La Presse+ sera gratuite!

<p><strong>Les langues se délient du côté de <em>La Presse</em>. Après avoir annoncé que l’application pour tablette serait lancée le 18 avril prochain, on sait maintenant qu’elle sera… gratuite!</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann                    </em></p>

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21 Mar

Sun News recants linking Vancouver Observer to Tides Canada; second apology in a week

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Observer-Sun apology.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>Screen shot of Sun News Network website</em></p><p>Sun News Network issued an apology for the second time in a week, this time for calling the <em>Vancouver Observer</em> an "in-house publication of Tides Foundation." </p>

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21 Mar

Recap: SAJA Talk: How are South Asian Stories covered in the Newsroom

<p><strong>Eric Mark Do</strong> live blogged the talk "<a href="http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=13648">South Asian Stories in the Newsroom</a>" for J-Source on Thursday March 21. </p>

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21 Mar

Le Québec, champion du monde du fait-divers

<p><strong>Huis clos rejeté! Les médias ont gagné leur combat, les journalistes ont finalement accès à la salle d’audience dans laquelle se déroule l’enquête préliminaire au procès Magnotta. L’occasion de parler encore un peu plus de faits-divers dans une Province qui en est déjà très friande.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p><p>Les statistiques sont implacables: selon Jean-François Dumas, président d’Influence Communication, les médias québécois offrent une couverture des faits-divers 49% supérieure à ce qu’elle</p>

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20 Mar

Newspapers experimenting with ebook content, subscription models

<p>This is second part of a two-part series on ebooks. <em><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/toronto-star-experiments-ebook-subscription-model" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Part one</a> looked at newspaper subscription models and marketing strategies for ebooks.</em></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p>

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20 Mar

La Presse to launch free tablet app

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p>

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20 Mar

Too revealing? The controversy over the Globe and Mail’s A1 photo of a figure skater

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The Globe and Mail Monday A1 photo, which showed 17-year-old Kaetlyn Osmond lifting her leg in a revealing crotch shot position, sparked outrage amongst readers. J-Source has a round-up of the reaction from journalists and the public. </p><p> </p>

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20 Mar

Canadian Press reporter Mike Blanchfield wins James Travers Fellowship

<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/Blanchfield.jpg" title="" /> Canadian Press reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/mblanchfield">Mike Blanchfield</a> has won the James Travers fellowship, an $25,000 international reporting grant that will allow him to probe the human cost of cluster bombs worldwide. </p>

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20 Mar

Halifax Chronicle Herald ceasing Sunday publication next month; launches expanded weekend edition

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The <em>Halifax Chronicle Herald</em> is ceasing publication of it Sunday edition next month. The paper <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwm-MoTmuXEbVmZBTGRPX0dpRlU/edit?usp=sharing">announced</a> it’s launching a new redesigned weekend edition that will be larger than the Saturday and Sunday newspaper combined with more columns and local content. The new weekend edition will be published on April 20, ending a 15-year run for the <em>Chronicle Herald</em>’s Sunday edition.</p>

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