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23 Aug

Megan Leslie quote misattribution ‘a huge error in haste’: The Hill Times reporter

<p>Stephen Harper’s photo-op ATV ride through sand dunes near Whitehorse on Monday was to the chagrin of many, including local environmental activists and opposition MPs, but <em>The Hill Times</em> news reporter Tim Naumetz also drew heat in the wake of the story after it was discovered that he quoted NDP MP Megan Leslie as saying things that she never said.</p><p>It was not intentional, Naumetz told J-Source, but a huge mistake made in a deadline rush.</p>

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22 Aug

Access to Information Act review coming

<p>The federal Office of the Information Commissioner is planning a review of Canada’s 30-year-old Access to Information Act. The commissioner’s office <a href="http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/med-roo-sal-med_nr-cp_2012_3.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in July </a>that in the coming months it will “engage in a dialogue with the public and stakeholders on the modernization of the Access to Information Act.”</p>

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22 Aug

Campagne électorale : petits sujets, grands enjeux?

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22 Aug

Canadian journalist wins international agricultural journalism award

<p>Mary Baxter, a London, Ont.-based journalist and J-Source’s Agricultural journalism editor, has won an international award recognizing her writing on agricultural issues.</p><p>The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) awarded Baxter with the Star Prize for Print Journalism for an article in <em>Better Farming</em> magazine titled “Lyme disease: the painful and hard-to-diagnose condition.”</p>

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22 Aug

Lorne Rubenstein: As rare as a double eagle

<p> </p><p><em>When he announced his retirement in July, Lorne Rubenstein was surprised at the reaction he received from readers; he was a unique and invaluable voice in the world of golf, consensus showed. <strong>Jeff Krever</strong> sat down with Rubenstein to talk about how the 32-year veteran golf columnist began writing on the now-unique beat, and how he changed his mind about retirement, showing he isn’t quite ready to give up writing about the sport he loves.</em></p><p><strong>By Jeff Krever</strong></p>

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22 Aug

Back to School: Instructors’ resources edition

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>J-Source has compiled this vast list of resources for journalism instructors to use in their classrooms. We’ve broken it down into three categories: <strong>The Basics</strong> (reporting, writing, interviewing and ethics), <strong>Broadcast/Visual Journalism</strong> (audio, video and photography) and <strong>New Media</strong> (social media, blogging, data visualization and multimedia storytelling).</p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: New Media

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: Broadcast/visual journalism

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: The Basics

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, <strong>Mary McGuire</strong> has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:</p>

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22 Aug

Gender challenge: is ‘they’ the new s/he?

<p><em>Sometimes sources choose not to self-identify as 'he' or 'she'. Journalists must try to be sensitive to their wishes. The use of 'they' as a gender-neutral singular pronoun is one possibility. <strong>Katie Toth</strong> talks to journalists, editors and activists to explore this as an ethical option.</em></p><p><strong>By Katie Toth</strong></p><p> </p><p>“It wouldn’t be correct.”</p><p>“It’s confusing for the reader.”</p>

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