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11 Dec

Loi d’accès à l’information : promesses non tenues

<p>Par Lise Millette</p><p>Elle avait pour objectif de changer la culture de secret qui régnait au sein des organismes publics sans nuire à la vie privée. Trente ans plus tard, la Loi d’accès à l’information tarde toujours à remplir pleinement ses promesses.</p><p>La loi a été sanctionnée en mai 1982. En 2012, la culture du « caché » n’est pas disparue. Elle s’est plutôt transformée. Plusieurs organismes ne sont toujours pas assujettis à la loi. Le gouvernement a aussi permis la création de sociétés à capital mixte qui échappent aussi à la loi.</p>

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11 Dec

Daniel Henry on lack of camera and electronic access to courts: ‘It’s just not good enough’

<p><em>Media lawyer</em><strong><em> Daniel Henry</em></strong><em> was honoured with the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression 2012 Vox Libera award. In his acceptance speech, he called for journalists to keep pressing for camera access in court, saying that when the press – and by virtue, the public – is denied access to courts electronically, it is, quite simply, not good enough.</em></p>

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10 Dec

Q&A with Toronto Star’s ‘Pathologist’ Katie Daubs

<p><em>The </em>Toronto Star<em> experimented with a graphic novel representation of reporter Katie Daubs' two-week stay indoors and in Toronto's underground PATH system. It was a multi-platform project with maps, videos, photos and more. Here, Daubs answers some of <strong>Eric Mark Do</strong>’s questions about the experience.</em></p>

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10 Dec

Stephen Ward to become director of George S. Turnbull Center in Portland, Oregon

<p>Stephen Ward will become the director of the <a href="http://journalism.uoregon.edu/turnbull">George S. Turnbull Center</a> in Portland, Oregon, which is part of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism.</p><p>Ward has spent the last four years as the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the school’s James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics. Prior to that, he was the director of University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism.</p>

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7 Dec

Agriculture reporter among those facing criminal charges in missing sheep case

<p> </p><p><a href="http://www.betterfarming.com/online-news/charges-laid-missing-sheep-saga-11529"><em>Better Farming</em> magazine reports</a> that a farm reporter is among four people facing criminal charges after a Canadian Food Inspection Agency investigation into the removal of 31 sheep from a federally quarantined farm in April 2012. Linda Frances Jones, Michael Schmidt, Robert Pinnell and Suzanne Atkinson all face numerous charges pertaining to obstruction of a CFIA inspector and transporting quarantined animals.</p>

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6 Dec

Sun Media shuts down a number of community newspapers

<p>At least six Sun Media newspapers have published their final editions.</p><p>The list includes the <em>Dunnville Chronicle, Guelph Review, K-W Review, Leamington Post, West Niagara News </em>and <em>Windsor This Week</em>.</p>

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6 Dec

Femme d’aujourd’hui, une leçon pour les femmes d’aujourd’hui.

<p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: #000000; widows: 2; orphans: 2 } P.western { so-language: fr-CA } --></style> </p><p class="western" lang="fr-CA" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">Par Chantal Francoeur</p>

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6 Dec

University of King’s College expands graduate journalism offerings with MFA in creative non-fiction

<p>The University of King’s College has announced it will launch a Master of Fine Arts in creative non-fiction in partnership with Dalhousie University in August 2013.</p><p>King’s new MFA will teach students to employ the techniques of fiction writers to tell true stories in a two-year limited-residency program — the first of its kind in Canada.</p><p>The two-year program will follow a residency-mentorship-residency-mentorship pattern.</p>

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5 Dec

Recap: CJFE’s A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting

<p>Join us at 7 p.m. EST when CJFE's <strong>Laura Tribe</strong> will be liveblogging the organization's annual gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting. </p>

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5 Dec

How they got the story: Kenneth Jackson on APTN’s Bruce Carson affair scoop

<p><em>‘Escort, pimp, senior policy advisor to Harper, native affairs and government contracts.’ Those were the words of a source that piqued<strong> Kenneth Jackson</strong>’s interest and began an investigation that would lead Jackson and APTN's <strong>Jorge Barrera</strong> to uncover the Bruce Carson affair. Jackson explains how they got the story. </em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Introduction by <em>Media </em>mag editor David McKie</strong></p>

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