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1 Feb

Video: Wilf Dinnick talks J-Source Award win

<p>J-Source’s Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell went out out to OpenFile headquarters in Toronto to talk with Wilf Dinnick about being recognized as <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/wilf-dinnick-and-openfileca-j-source-canadian-newsperson-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J-Source's Newsperson of the Year</a>. In this interview, Dinnick talks about what the award means for him, his team and investors in local collaborative news.</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b7AhnhmfIzc?rel=0" width="640"></iframe></p>

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1 Feb

Canadian newspapers and infographics: Too scared to try?

<p><em>Around the world, newspapers are boldly experimenting with online infographics -- and they're making money. So why aren't papers in Canada following suit? <strong>Claire Prime</strong> looks into this in the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.</em></p><p> </p>

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1 Feb

Embracing the deadbeat: The final word on a life lived

<p><em>When it comes to writing obituaries, your story is the last word on a person’s life. <strong>Don Gibb</strong> gives advice on how to write these sensitive stories in a way that gets everything right while humanizing, remembering and celebrating a person's life the way they deserve. With an introduction from <a href="http://caj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/mediamag/Winter%202012/MEDIA%20MAGAZINE%20Winter%202012_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media magazine</a> editor <strong>Dave McKie</strong>.</em></p><p> </p>

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31 Jan

Mélissa François: le président du syndicat de TVA suspendu

<p>Le dossier Mélissa François gonfle. La direction de TVA a suspendu pour une durée de trois mois le président du syndicat des employés de TVA, Réjean Beaudet, un mois après qu'il ait publiquement réclamé le retour à l'antenne de la journaliste. Celle-ci n'a pas été revue à l'écran depuis qu'elle a annoncé par erreur la mort de Kim Jong-Deux plutôt que celle de Kim Jong-il, le 18 décembre au soir.</p>

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31 Jan

Bureaucratic roadblocks frustrate access to court files

<p><em>There is a serious and troubling disconnect between the public’s right of access to the courts and the reality on the ground for journalists who try to cover them. <strong>Dean Jobb</strong> explains this troubling disconnect with examples of recent decisions that reflect his experience as a court reporter.</em></p><p><strong>Nova Scotia erects new barriers as Ontario, B.C. promise better access</strong></p><p><strong>Commentary </strong><strong>by Dean Jobb</strong></p>

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31 Jan

Un journaliste arrêté pour conduite dangereuse

<script src="http://storify.com/projetj/un-journaliste-arrete-pour-conduite-dangereuse.js"></script><noscript>[<a href="http://storify.com/projetj/un-journaliste-arrete-pour-conduite-dangereuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "Un journaliste arrêté pour conduite dangereuse" on Storify</a>]</noscript>

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31 Jan

The Globe and Mail announces plans for new headquarters

<p>Canada’s largest national newspaper will be getting a new home.</p><p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> has announced plans for a new 480,000 square-foot building that will be constructed on the north-west corner of Front St. W and Spadina Ave. in Toronto, to be completed in late 2015. Perry Nixdorf, vice president of operations for <em>The Globe</em> said in an e-mail that the new building will be constructed on land adjacent to the paper’s current headquarters on Front St. W. A Toyota dealership currently sits on that corner of Front and Spadina.</p>

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31 Jan

Costa Concordia: télé-réalité à l’italienne

<p>Par Geneviève Gagné, collaboratrice en Italie</p>

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31 Jan

Rob Ford names George Christopoulos new press secretary

<p>George Christopoulos will start his new job as Mayor Rob Ford’s press secretary on Feb. 6, according to <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/30/ford-names-george-christopoulos-new-press-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p><p>Christopoulos is currently a communications coordinator for the Toronto Police and previously worked at the <em>Toronto Sun</em> as a journalist for over a decade. City Hall was one of the beats that Christopoulos covered up until he left the paper in 2003.  </p>

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31 Jan

Critiquing the Twitter-verse

<p>Social media has recently taken some journalistic heat. Chantal Hébert <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/chantal-hebert-twitter-not-window-world-%E2%80%94-it%E2%80%99s-mirror" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned Twitter’s value</a> to political reporting at the annual <a href="http://www.uregina.ca/arts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minifie Lecture</a>, hosted by the University of Regina School of Journalism.

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