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23 Feb

Rob and Doug Ford to host radio show on Newstalk1010

<p>The mayor of Canada’s largest city not only got his own <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/a-better-way-to-retool-torontos-ailing-ttc/article548474/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in <em>The Globe and Mail</em> today, but Rob Ford also confirmed that he and his brother, councilor Doug Ford, are getting their own radio show.</p>

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23 Feb

Le courage de montrer ce qu’on préfère ne pas voir

<p>Par Colette Brin, texte originellement paru sur le blogue <a href="http://www.blogues.ulaval.ca/colette-brin/le-courage-de-montrer-ce-quon-prefere-ne-pas-voir/">Contact</a></p><p><strong>Voir aussi: <a href="http://projetj.ca/article/syrie-deux-journalistes-tues-homs">Syrie: Deux journalistes tués à Homs</a></strong></p>

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22 Feb

Surnuméraires: les légionnaires précaires de l’info

<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Dans le cadre du développement de son plan iPad,</span><em style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> La Presse</em><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> embauchera une vingtaine de surnuméraires cette année, doublant ainsi son bassin de journalistes temporaires.

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22 Feb

Final week to apply for CJF Excellence in Journalism Award

<p>The Canadian Journalism Foundation is accepting applications for its <a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/awards_excellence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Excellence in Journalism Award</a>, which will be handed out to two organizations: One in large/national media, and one in small/medium or local/regional media. </p><p>There is only one week left to apply; Applications must be received by March 1 at 5:00p.m.</p><p>The Excellence Award is the only national media award to be awarded to a journalistic organization based on overall extraordinary performance.</p>

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22 Feb

John Paton: Exclusive interview and digital first advice for young journalists

<p>“Digital first is a transition strategy, not an end-game strategy. I don’t know what the end-game is. Neither does anybody in the business,” John Paton <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/j-sources-exclusive-interview-digital-first-media-ceo-john-paton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told me</a> as he sat across from me at a table in the atrium of the CBC building on Front St. in Toronto last week.</p>

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22 Feb

Syrie: Deux journalistes tués à Homs

<p><em>(2e version)</em></p><p>La journaliste américaine Marie Colvin et le photoreporter français Rémi Ochlik ont été tués aujourd'hui à Homs en Syrie. Ils ont été victimes de bombardements qui visaient le quartier de Baba Amr où se situaient le centre de presse et l'hôpital de la ville. Trois ou quatre autres journalistes ont été blessés, dont une reporter du Figaro Édith Bouvier et un pigiste britannique, le photographe Paul Conroy. 25 civils ont également péri.</p>

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22 Feb

Challenging the way journalists report sexual assault

<p><em>Warning:  The following article contains disturbing details.  But should it? In the latest issue of the </em><a href="http://kjr.kingsjournalism.com/?p=9005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">King's Journalism Review</a><em>, <strong>Marie Hanifen </strong>explores the delicate balance required to report on sexual assault cases and the point at which including details becomes gratuitous. </em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/mariesexassault.jpg" title="" /></p>

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22 Feb

Veteran foreign correspondent, Marie Colvin, killed in Syria shelling along with a French photographer

<h2>Marie Colvin, an American journalist who worked for the UK's Sunday Times <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9097762/Syria-Sunday-Times-journalist-Marie-Colvin-killed-in-Homs.html">has been reportedly killed</a>, along with a French photographer, after the house where they were staying was shelled.

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21 Feb

Behind-the-scenes at CTV News Southwestern Ontario

<p> </p><p><a href="http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/inside-the-newsroom-1.767997" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/inside the newsroom.PNG" title="" /></a></p><p>Hey, mainstream media organizations, do you want to build your audience’s trust in you? Appear more transparent? Help them understand the hours of reporting, writing, shooting, editing and interviewing that went into the latest story you published?</p>

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21 Feb

CBC Manitoba hiring producer for Definitely Not the Opera team

<p>As posted on <a href="http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBC's job board</a>:</p><p>CBC Manitoba is looking for a producer to lead the DNTO (Definitely Not the Opera) production team based in Winnipeg and Toronto with contributors across the country and around the globe. The team’s primary focus is personal storytelling, so you need to be fearless about getting personal and have a strong sense of how to focus a story. Our team has an incredible reputation for creativity and innovation: we need a producer who inspires and encourages both.</p>

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