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28 Jul

Star public editor: Is Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell playing politics with the truth?

<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/Kathy English_35.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of <em>The Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>Is Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell playing politics with the truth?</p>

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28 Jul

How are Canadian news organizations protecting their sources online?

<p><strong>By Pierre Chauvin</strong></p><p>As the author of three books about the Mafia, <em>National Post </em>reporter Adrian Humphreys understands the importance of protecting confidential sources and how to go about doing so. He considers himself “a master of old-school security and protection.”</p><p>But it wasn’t until he was working on a feature about a former U.S. soldier seeking asylum in Canada, claiming he was tortured by the FBI, that Humphreys realized he wasn’t up to speed with how to protect his sources online.</p>

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28 Jul

Globe public editor: Obituaries pay tribute to notable lives but often with errors difficult to avoid

<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/Sylvia Stead_24.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Of all the pages in a newspaper, the obituary page is the most likely to be kept, framed and shared. To have an obituary in The Globe is a tribute to those who have lived notable lives, and the writers and editors hate to see a mistake mar that honour.</p>

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28 Jul

Qu’est-ce qui pousse un journaliste vers le contenu marketing?

<p><em><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Robert Delaney_0.JPG" title="" /></em></p><p><em>Par Robert Delaney, vice-président et directeur de la rédaction de /newsroom et journaliste indépendant, correspondant notamment pour le Financial Times. Il a passé ses quatorze premières années de carrière en Asie, où il a, entre autres, travaillé au bureau de Bloomberg News à Pékin.</em></p>

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25 Jul

Media go to court for access to Omar Khadr

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Omar Khadr_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of Canadian Press</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The CBC, <em>Toronto Star</em> and documentary producer White Pine Pictures are taking the federal government to court to ask that Omar Khadr be allowed to be interviewed by the media.</p>

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25 Jul

Cara Fullerton leaving Global Calgary

<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/Cara Fullerton_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor </strong></p><p>Global Calgary anchor and reporter Cara Fullerton is leaving the broadcast industry after 14 years to pursue a career in health and fitness. </p>

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25 Jul

CBC ombudsman: Kids can be seen and heard

<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/Esther Enkin_30.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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24 Jul

Star reporter Rick Westhead joins TSN

<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/Rick Westhead_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Toronto Star</em>’s foreign affairs reporter Rick Westhead is leaving the newspaper to join TSN as the network’s senior correspondent.</p>

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24 Jul

Why are grants funding freelancers so vital?

<p><strong>By Julie McCann, Field Notes Editor</strong></p><p>In September 2012, Perth, Ont.-based independent reporter Ann Silversides spent three weeks travelling to communities in Nunavut investigating the territory’s health situation from the perspective of its nurses. A clear finding: there aren’t enough of them. And most striking for her: despite the fact that 86 per cent of the population is made up of indigenous people, nurses from the south receive minimal cultural orientation. “They are so understaffed,” she said. “It’s all so meager.”</p>

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24 Jul

Julie McCann is J-Source’s new Field Notes Editor

<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/Julie McCann_0.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Nicole Blanchett Neheli.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><p>I’m pleased to welcome Julie McCann as J-Source’s new Field Notes editor.</p>

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