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6 Feb

Job posting: Associate Editor, The Canadian Journalism Project (J-Source.ca)

<p> </p><p><strong>Job: Associate Editor, J-Source.ca</strong></p><p> </p><p>Location: Toronto</p><p>Term:  Nine-month contract</p><p>Salary: Commensurate with experience</p><p>Start date: March 4, 2013</p><p><strong>Application deadline: February 8, 6:00 p.m. EST</strong></p><p> </p>

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6 Feb

ATM Jonquière perd l’exclusivité de son programme: la direction s’explique mal la décision

<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">L’année 2013 occupera certainement une place spéciale dans la tête des dirigeants du programme ATM offert au Cégep de Jonquière.

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5 Feb

Chronicle Herald restaurant reviewer request raises controversy

<p> </p><p><strong>By David Swick</strong></p><p>Journalism controversies rarely involve a newspaper restaurant reviewer. But then not many restaurant reviewers call up restaurants and request $200.</p>

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5 Feb

L’École de communications Urbania reçoit la première cohorte de son histoire

<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">En imaginant un laboratoire multidisciplinaire où se rencontrent le journalisme, les relations publiques, le design, la télévision, la production, les médias interactifs et l’organisation d’événements, l’École de communications Urbania se veut novatrice et ambitieuse. Depuis le 7 janvier dernier, 10 étudiants de l’UQAM font un pied de nez aux traditions de stages en vivant une expérience peu commune.  </span></strong></p>

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4 Feb

Are ebooks the new journalism frontier?

<p><em>On Wednesday January 30 ONA Toronto hosted a panel discussion about the role of ebooks in the future of journalism from the point of view of news outlets, freelancers and staff journalists.</em></p><p> </p><script src="//storify.com/ericmarkdo/ebooks-the-new-journalism-frontier.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/ericmarkdo/ebooks-the-new-journalism-frontier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "\"eBooks: The new journalism frontier?\"" on Storify</a>]</noscript>

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4 Feb

Repenser l’idéal de transparence des médias

<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">Carolane Gratton, étudiante à la maîtrise en communication à l'Université d'Ottawa et Marc-François Bernier, Ph. D. Professeur et titulaire de la CREJ</span></strong></p>

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1 Feb

Le Canada dégringole au classement de Reporters sans frontières

<p> </p><p>Reporters sans frontières a déclassé le Canada de 10 échelons dans son classement mondiale de la liberté de la presse, publié jeudi. Il passe du 10<sup>e</sup> au 20<sup>e</sup> rang, <a href="http://fr.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html">évitant « de justesse de sortir de la liste des vingt pays les mieux cotés », souligne l’organisme</a>.</p>

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31 Jan

Toronto Star digital editor John Ferri on the paper’s new web and mobile site design

<p>Yesterday, the <em>Toronto Star</em> unveiled a vastly redesigned website and new mobile site, as you can see below.</p>

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31 Jan

ATI system in crisis: CJFE

<p>Canada's access to information system is in a deep crisis and without urgent reforms could soon become dysfunctional. That would be a blow to Canada's democracy, according to the new report by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), titled <a href="https://cjfe.org/resources/publications/hollow-right-access-information-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>A Hollow Right: Access to information in crisis</em></a>.</p>

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30 Jan

The issues facing Canadian University Press and how it intends to tackle them

<p>At 75-years old, student newspaper co-op Canadian University Press has seen better days.</p><p> </p><p>In the past two years, a sizeable contingent of its founding members has left the organization; gone are the <em>McGill Daily</em>, the <em>Manitoban</em>, the <em>Link</em> and the <em>Dalhousie Gazette</em>, joining the <em>Varsity**</em> on CUP's former-members bench. That these papers were also paying the highest fees toward CUP is not a mutually exclusive phenomenon.</p>

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