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6 Feb

Five questions for Calgary Herald’s digital engagement editor Tom Babin

<p><em>The </em>Calgary Herald<em> is creating a giant Rolodex for its newsroom with its new <a href="http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/01/31/be-a-source-for-the-calgary-herald-and-help-make-our-journalism-better/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Be a Source</a> program. We asked digital engagement editor <strong>Tom Babin</strong> to tell us about the new program (launched last week) that turns its readers into sources and how it can help journalists.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p>

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4 Feb

Hacker-assisted reporting: can it be ethical?

<p><em>If you hear the word ‘hacker’ and all you can think is </em>News of the World<em> scandal, stop cringing. <strong>Cecil Rosner </strong>explains how working with hackers who mine for publicly available data can be beneficial to not-so-tech-savvy journalists.</em></p><p> </p><p>I have taken the controversial step of mentioning the words “hacking,” “reporting” and “ethical” all in the same sentence. Now I’ll need the rest of this post to convince you I haven’t lost all vestiges of integrity.</p>

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4 Feb

Hacker-assisted reporting: can it be ethical?

<p>I have taken the controversial step of mentioning the words “hacking,” “reporting” and “ethical” all in the same sentence. Now I’ll need the rest of this post to convince you I haven’t lost all vestiges of integrity.</p>

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3 Feb

Michelle Siu wins Tom Hanson photojournalism award

<p style="background:white"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/6802090125_52e60279e4_z (1).jpg" title="" /></p>

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3 Feb

Ezra Levant takes on Jennifer Ditchburn over new Canadians story

<p>While Quebecor declined to comment in a story yesterday that stated federal bureaucrats had posed as “new Canadians” during a reaffirmation ceremony broadcast by its own Sun TV, it was only a matter of time before someone at the news organization spoke up.</p>

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2 Feb

Journalism and Communication Rights In Canada: An Interview With Jeremy Shtern

<p>Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern’s collection <strong>Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada</strong> is a series of essays by Canadian media and communications scholars on the past, present and future of Canadian communication rights.

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2 Feb

Journalism and Communication Rights In Canada: An Interview With Jeremy Shtern

<p> </p><p><em>Lisa Lynch interviews Media Divides co-author Jeremy Shtern about Canadian communication policy, the right to communicate, and the role of journalists in asserting their (and our) communication rights.</em></p>

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2 Feb

Remstar devra indemniser les ex-employés de TQS

<p>Fermer les salles de nouvelles de TQS au printemps 2008 était une violation des conventions collectives en vigueur et Remstar devra dédommager pleinement les artisans de l'information de la chaîne qu'elle a licenciés en bloc. Après une longue bataille légale, <a href="http://scc-csc.lexum.com/fr/news_release/2012/12-02-02.3a/12-02-02.3a.html">la Cour suprême a rejeté</a> ce matin l'ultime demande d'appel de la société des frères Rémillard.</p><p>-----------</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><strong>Mise à jour (15h35):</strong></p>

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2 Feb

Federal bureaucrats posed as new Canadians in Sun TV ceremony

<p>The Canadian Press <a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/58188-bureaucrats-pose-new-canadians-sun-tv-ceremony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has reported</a> that at least six federal bureaucrats stood in as “new Canadians” in a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony at Sun TV studios last October.</p>

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1 Feb

Bébé magazine: une circulaire déguisée

<p>Le Conseil de presse du Québec a émis un blâme, il y a quelques jours, contre le contenu général de la revue <em>Bébé magazine</em> pour avoir diffusé de la publicité déguisée en information. Le tribunal d'honneur de la profession juge que bien qu'elle se présente comme un produit journalistique, la revue est, de A à Z, une vaste circulaire.</p>

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