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21 Dec

Pourquoi ouvre-t-on des dizaines de blogues sur un site privé? Pour vendre de la publicité…

<p><span style="line-height: 0.48cm; ">Par Nadia Seraiocco, texte originellement paru sur son blogue </span><a href="http://www.cheznadia.com/" style="line-height: 0.48cm; ">Chez Nadia</a></p>

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21 Dec

J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year: Nominations open

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/IMG_6637 copy_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p>While other media organizations are naming their news <em>makers</em> of the year, here at J-Source <a href="http://j-source.ca/j-source-canadian-newsperson-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we're looking at the journalists</a> who cover the stories that make a difference and the editors, producers, managers and owners who make sure journalism's best is out there for Canadianss.</p>

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21 Dec

Makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice

<p>Looking back on these<a href="http://worldnews.about.com/od/topstories/tp/Top-10-News-Stories-To-Watch-In-2011.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> top story predictions</a> for 2011, there were some hits and misses. The year held some surprises, with Jack Layton topping cbc.ca’s list of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/13/mostviewed-top-2011.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most-viewed stories</a>.

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21 Dec

Fighting for the soul of journalism amid imposters

<p><em>As journalists, we ask tough questions of our sources. But it turns out we may need to ask such questions of fellow journalists as well. <strong>Stephen Ward</strong> writes about an alarming trend he is seeing south of the border: partisan groups passing off their work as journalism. Partisan journalism simply can’t provide the value that public journalism ideally does. The U.S. cases should serve as a warning to Canadians. Foreword by J-Source Ideas editor and </em>Media<em> magazine editor <strong>David McKie</strong>.</em></p><p> </p>

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21 Dec

#Twitterfight or: How journalists manage their online presence

<p><em>Childish sniping, iffy ethics and the sheer lunacy of public feuds expose the human side of journalists. Is that wrong? <strong>Raeanne Quinton</strong> looked into the emerging trend of newsrooms issuing social media guidelines to reporters for the </em>Ryerson Review of Journalism<em> and recounts some infamous Twitter-battles between Toronto’s Jonathan Goldsbie and Sue Ann Levy.</em></p><p> </p>

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21 Dec

Statscan to make yet more data available at no cost

<p>Updated Dec. 21</p><p>Statistics Canada is going to make more of its data available to the public without charge, though the exact shape of the new free-data policy has yet to emerge.</p>

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20 Dec

Huffington Post Québec: le Voir s’indigne

<p>Le journal <em>Voir</em> n'en finit plus de s'indigner que plusieurs personnalités connues aient accepté de bloguer bénévolement pour le <em>Huffington Post Québec</em> (HPQ). Après la diffusion de deux chroniques coup de gueule de son directeur des nouveaux médias, Simon Jodoin, voilà que l'équipe publie en section «nouvelle» un texte intitulé, «<a href="http://voir.ca/nouvelles/2011/12/20/le-voir-paye-les-blogueurs/">Le Voir paie ses blogueurs</a>».</p>

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20 Dec

Individuals – not media organizations – led Twitter conversation in Egypt and Tunisia

<p>A <a href="http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1246/643" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new study</a> released by the International Journal of Communication says that journalists, bloggers and activists were responsible for spreading more information during the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt last winter than mainstream media organizations.</p><p>The study looked at over 350,000 tweets containing relevant hashtags to the two uprisings that included tweets from almost 40,000 distinct users in Tunisia and over 60,000 in Egypt.</p>

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20 Dec

Political unrest proves deadly for journalists: CPJ report

<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists has released the results of its annual <a href="http://www.cpj.org/reports/2011/12/journalists-killed-political-unrest-proves-deadly.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey of journalist fatalities worldwide</a>. For the second straight year, Pakistan was the most dangerous place for the press, though there were also a number of new trends in 2011.</p>

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20 Dec

Can the future of journalism take lessons from its past?

<p> </p><p>With the future of journalism uncertain, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/twitter-journalists-best-friend-and-journalism%E2%80%99s-worst-enemy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> over whether or not Twitter makes for lazy journalists, and the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/when-storytelling-never-stops-working-all-day-news-channel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24-hour news cycle</a> dominating newsrooms, it's important to sometimes take a step back and remember the foundations of the profession.</p>

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