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30 Jan

NASH75 plenary tackles membership fees and increasing staff terms

<p>Further to <a href="/article/issues-facing-canadian-university-press-and-how-it-intends-tackle-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Lindeman's story on the challenges facing CUP</a>:</p><p> </p><script src="//storify.com/traceylindeman/nash75-canadian-university-press.js"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/traceylindeman/nash75-canadian-university-press" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "Nash75 - Canadian University Press" on Storify</a>]</noscript>

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30 Jan

On slipping custom content into newspapers’ revenue mix

<p><strong style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em;">By Jonathan Sas, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/01/28/Media-Custom-Content/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tyee</a></strong></p><p class="first" style="margin-top: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 10px;">"I hate it. I hate doing it... It's not what I signed up for." That's the lament of a former Postmedia reporter assigned all too often to write "custom content."</p>

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30 Jan

High school student paper publishes despite extracurricular cuts: Q&A with Proxy editor-in-chief Sabina Wex

<p>Teachers across Ontario are boycotting extra-curricular activities — including the supervision of student newspaper production — as a form of protest in the ongoing contract dispute with the government.</p><p>But students at North Collegiate Toronto Institute will still get their news.</p>

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30 Jan

Digital First Media live chat with Twitter’s Mark Luckie on social media storytelling

<p>Join us from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST today as we syndicate Digital First Media's live chat with Mark Luckie, manager of journalism and news for Twitter on using social media for storytelling. </p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="600" src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=80886&ThemeId=4601" style="border: 1px solid #000" width="500"></iframe></p>

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30 Jan

L’éthique journalistique varie selon le mode de propriété du média ainsi que les contextes sociaux et politiques

<p><em>Note de lecture de la Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme de l'Université d'Ottawa</em></p><p><strong>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</strong></p><p>L’éthique des journalistes serait influencée par l'entreprise de presse pour laquelle ils travaillent tout comme par la société dans laquelle ils évoluent.</p>

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29 Jan

Faut-il inclure Sun News au forfait de base?

<p> </p><p>Québecor demande au CRTC d'inclure sa chaîne Sun News <a href="http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/medias-et-telecoms/201301/22/01-4613643-sun-news-vise-une-distribution-obligatoire.php">dans l’abonnement de base des câblodistributeurs</a>, arguant des pertes de 17 millions de dollars en 2012.</p><p>Ses critiques, comme <a href="http://www.latetedanslaune.ca/2013/01/un-bon-mod%C3%A8le-daffaires-le-populisme.html">Julien McEvoy sur MSN, s’y opposent fermement</a>, dénonçant au passage le populisme du réseau.</p>

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29 Jan

Le virage numérique, une menace au journalisme?

<p> </p><p>Au Québec, <a href="http://www.lapresse.ca/"><em>La Presse</em></a> prévoit <a href="http://projetj.ca/article/la-presse-en-voie-dabandonner-le-papier">abandonner le papier d'ici quelques années pour se concentrer sur les tablettes</a>. De son côté, le <a href="http://www.journaldemontreal.com/"><em>Journal de Montréal</em></a> a d’ores et déjà mis en place un mur payant (paywall) pour réserver la majorité de son contenu en ligne à ses abonnés.</p>

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29 Jan

Changes to The Globe and Mail’s Books section

<p><em>The Globe and Mail</em>'s Book section hasn’t been killed, but there are some changes being made to it.</p><p>A story published on <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/mobile/story.cfm?c=190944">NOW Magazine’s website</a> Monday night said the <em>The Globe</em> was ‘slashing’ its Books section, reporting that editor Martin Levin and assistant editor Jack Kirchhoff would serve in those roles no longer. A tweet by the magazine suggested an even worse fate for the section.</p>

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29 Jan

What we learned from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s #dayinthelife

<p>On Monday—Parliament's first day back in session after the holidays—Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave the public a rare glimpse inside his routines with his #dayinthelife tweets, photos and video. For a politician who is <a href="http://www.caj.ca/?p=2657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so often accused of being secretive</a>, it was a way for him to get his message out unfiltered by the media and <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/29/harper-humanizes-scores-points/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">humanize himself</a> at the same time.</p>

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29 Jan

eBook review: Cool Heads at Kingston Pen

<p>Review: Ron Haggart (author); Kelly Haggart (editor), <em><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Cool-Heads-Kingston-Pen-ebook/dp/B00A731ZBS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359654197&sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cool Heads at Kingston Pen</a> </em>(ebook), <a href="http://houseofhaggart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Haggart</a> (2012)</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Grant Buckler</strong></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/cool heads.PNG" title="" /></p>

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