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20 Oct

A newspaper with a revenge plot?

<p>A journalism student in Tennessee has created a weekly campus paper, narrowly focusing on a student-professor relationship that resulted in marriage. Here’s where it gets interesting. The female student involved is the ex-wife of the newspaper’s creator and editor-in-chief Mustapha Moussa.<br /><br /> She and Moussa divorced in April, after her affair became public. It certainly seems the intentions behind the newspaper are vengeful, but Moussa denies this, saying he’s trying to publicize inappropriate relations between students and their professors.<br />

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20 Oct

Hackgate: des facteurs de risque existent aussi au Québec

<p><em>Par Marc François Bernier, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme à l'Université d’Ottawa et membre du comité éditorial de ProjetJ.ca - Ce texte est originellement paru dans <a href="http://www.fpjq.org/index.php?id=trenteep">Le Trente</a></em></p>

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20 Oct

Exposing dirty media tricks: “It helps that Murdoch is a bastard”

<p>Nick Davies, the Guardian reporter who broke the phone hacking scandal in Britain, described a remarkably simple technique for doing good journalism as he addressed a room full of investigative reporters in Kiev.<br /><br />He calls it the "hang on a minute" moment. It's the act of identifying and then doggedly investigating the part of a story that just doesn't seem to add up.<br />

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19 Oct

Noir Canada: quand le droit à la réputation à une portée liberticide

<p><em>Par Pierre Trudel, professeur titulaire au Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) de la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal, titulaire de la Chaire L.R. Wilson sur le droit des technologies de l'information et du commerce électronique et directeur du Centre d’études sur les médias.</em></p>

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19 Oct

Steve Jobs may not have saved journalism, but he sure changed it

<p>Since Steve Jobs’ death, journalists all over the world have been reflecting on the creative genius and how he changed the world of technology. Turns out, the Apple co-founder affected the journalism world too.<br /><br />Even if you don’t agree with some <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705392363/Steve-Jobs--the-man-who-saved-journalism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writers who believe Jobs “saved” journalism</a>, at the very least, he had a strong impact.<br />

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19 Oct

Non, un site n’est pas responsable des contenus en hyperliens

<p>La Cour suprême du Canada a statué ce matin que publier un hyperlien menant à des déclarations diffamatoires ne constitue pas un acte diffamatoire. Le plus haut tribunal du pays a ainsi mis un terme à une longue poursuite opposant l'ancien directeur de campagne du Parti vert, Wayne Crookes, et le propriétaire et exploitant du site p2pnet, Jon Newton.</p>

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19 Oct

ScribbleLive launches paid internship for digital journalist

<p>ScribbleLive is looking for an engaged, curious, and self-starting j-student to help out with its recently launched j-school donation program, in which the company gifts ScribbleLive to j-schools across the country. The Toronto-based startup needs an intern to help train professors and j-students to cover events in real time. Other duties include: creating instructional videos, offering newsrooms real-time coverage tips and best practices, as well as answering questions and providing support to journalists. The position offers a $1,000 honourarium each month; the internship is four months.

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19 Oct

“It’s beyond just any broadcast”

<p><em>Canada's Indo-Canadian population is fuming over CBC's quiet cancellation of the Punjabi-language broadcast of </em>Hockey Night in Canada<em>. <strong>Ishani Nath </strong>on the controversy, the fight, and the whys behind the show's overwhelming popularity.</em></p>

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19 Oct

Live coverage: The law and ethics of investigative journalism

<p>Dominique Payette's first Ontario talk about her controversial report; Julian Assange's lawyer on keeping the media accountable; the consequences of promising to keep sources confidential. <em>J-Source</em> associate editor <strong>Lauren McKeon</strong> liveblogged it all -- and more -- at the packed all-day panel series. Missed the event? <a href="http://live.j-source.ca/Event/The_Law_and_Ethics_of_Investigative_Journalism?Page=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check it out here</a>. </p>

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19 Oct

Blame it on neoliberalism: the fix

<p><em>In the final installment of this two-part series, <strong>Nick Fillmore</strong> argues that journalists and community groups must develop larger independent and alternative Canadian media outlets if we want to preserve freedom of expression.</em></p>

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