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10 Aug

Canadian-born humour writer David Rakoff dies at 47

<p>Montreal-born writer David Rakoff died after a long illness yesterday at the age of 47 in Manhattan. Rakoff was an award-winning humorist whose work appeared in <em>The New York Times</em> and <em>Newsweek</em> among other publications and was a contributor to Public Radio International’s<em> This American Life</em>. He is known for his non-fictional and sometimes autobiographical essays that are remembered for being cynical, neurotic and hilarious, while touching on everyday life and culture. </p>

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10 Aug

Filature avortée: chronologie d’une controverse médiatique

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10 Aug

J-Links for Aug. 10: Jean Charest angry over Radio-Canada report; Political coverage and ‘churnalism’; A $70,000 parking ticket

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/charest-reacts-to-report-of-cancelled-surveillance-operation-1.908032" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jean Charest angry over Radio-Canada report on cancelled surveillance operation</a></p>

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9 Aug

Journalists sans j-school

<p>"<a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2012/08/20120802-124614.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You're conscripted!</a>" read a Sun News Network post that was soliciting applicants for a number of job vacancies at the network.</p><p>In Sun News Network fashion, the posting blasted both the CBC and the Lamestream Media Party, but also picked a relatively new foe: journalism schools.</p>

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9 Aug

‘We wuz robbed’ journalism and the more even-handed examples

<p> </p><p><strong>By Ivor Shapiro</strong></p><p><strong>As an update to his earlier post: <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/%E2%80%98we-wuz-robbed%E2%80%99-journalism-not-good-enough-after-olympic-soccer-drama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">'We wuz robbed' journalism not enough after Olympic soccer drama</a></strong></p>

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9 Aug

J-Links for Aug. 9: The Star on journalistic ethical breaches; Kai Nagata on Ethical Oil parody video; 2012 a “bloody” year for journos

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2012/08/09/plagiarism_and_fabrication_charges_undermine_news_media_credibility.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Star </em>reporter on plagiarizing and fabricating in journalism</a></p>

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8 Aug

Ensuring productive FOI requests often requires advance reporting

<p><strong>By Charles Rusnell</strong></p><p> </p><p>Within minutes of beginning to skim through the expense-claim records of a senior health services executive I had recently received through Freedom of Information, I knew I had an important story.</p><p>But then, I had a good idea of the newsworthiness of those records before I filed the request months earlier.</p>

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8 Aug

Melanie Coulson’s open cover letter for the Sun News Network job

<p><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.100000381469727px; ">By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p style="margin: 14px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.100000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.871094); "><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/sun news cover letter.PNG" title="" /></p>

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8 Aug

J-Links for Aug. 8: Media companies against Bell’s Astral acquisition; Magazine readership data released; Cast of Layton biopic announced

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/08/07/bell-astral-competitors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media companies against Bell’s Astral takeover, Bell responds</a></p>

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7 Aug

‘We wuz robbed’ journalism not good enough after Olympic soccer drama

<p><strong><em>Ivor Shapiro</em></strong><em> may not know </em><em><span new="" times="">much about soccer</span></em><em><span new="" times="">, but he knows</span></em><em><span new="" times=""> that some coverage of yesterday's Canada-U.S. women’s semifinal match </span>fell short of the rigour and autonomy that, he believes, should define journalism.</em></p><p><strong>By Ivor Shapiro</strong></p>

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