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5 Oct

(Un)Lawful access: wiring Canada’s networks for control

<p><em>Carleton University's <strong>Dwayne Winseck</strong> opines about three issues in the federal government's hands that he argues will influence an independent free media: the copyright act; the process to choose a new CRTC head; and, the 'lawful-access' legislation.This article originally appeared on Winseck's blog, <a href="http://dwmw.wordpress.com/">Mediamorphis</a>.</em></p>

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5 Oct

Bringing the ha! to Hogtown

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/onionpartyshot.jpg" title="" />J-Source<em>’s <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> caught up with </em>The Onion<em>’s features editor Joe Garden, in town for the satirical paper’s Toronto launch, to chat about Canada, what makes it funny, and what’s in store for the Canuck edition.</em><br /><br />Torontonians – your weekly reads just got a whole lot funnier.<br />

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5 Oct

Foreign reporting: A glamorous job?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/forum picture jsource.jpg" title="" /><em><strong>Maria Assaf</strong> listens in as four CBC foreign correspondents demystify the challenges of foreign reporting. Anna-Maria Tremonti, Adrienne Arsenault, Peter Armstong, and cameraman Mike Heenan talk straight at the network's recent open house panel about reporting in war zones and foreign countries where nothing, it sometimes seems, is ever easy.</em></p>

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5 Oct

Police investigations cast net over media footage

<p>Vancouver police are <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/vancouver-police-serve-media-warrants-demand-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving warrants</a> to collect hockey riot footage from media outlets. British media recently faced <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/british-media-give-riot-footage-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the same dilemma</a> in the wake of the London riots.

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4 Oct

Six former journalists now running for office discuss the switch with Steve Paikin

<p>They've left their jobs as TV anchors or hosts - at least during the Ontario election campaign to stand on the other side of the microphone.</p><p><a href="http://theagenda.ww3.tvo.org/episode/124946/once-journalists-now-politicians">TVO's Steve Paikin </a>brought six provincial candidates together for a compelling discussion about the switch from journalism to politics, two days before they find out if their next assignment is Queen's Park.</p>

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4 Oct

City TV launches all-news TV channel in Toronto

<p>Toronto's latest all-news TV channel is now on the air and if you're a Rogers subscriber in Toronto you can't miss it as it pops up on channel 'one' when you turn on your cable box.</p>

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4 Oct

Lapierre contre Sormany: l’aveuglement 2.0

<p>Le directeur des émissions d'affaires publiques de la Télévision de Radio-Canada, Pierre Sormany, est en train de payer cher une indiscrétion 2.0. La direction de Radio-Canada a émis hier en fin de journée un <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/fr/releases/archive/October2011/03/c8987.html">communiqué</a> annonçant l'avoir suspendu dès vendredi, après que le chroniqueur politique du Groupe TVA et de Cogeco, Jean Lapierre, ait déposé une poursuit en diffamation contre lui pour des propos tenus sur Facebook.</p>

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4 Oct

Unnecessary journalism phrases

<p>Estimated at about. Evolve over time. Of existence. Completely destroyed. Due to the fact that. Introduced a new.<br /><br />We could go on. So can Josh Sternberg, a communications firm owner and <em>Huffington Post</em>, <em>Mashable</em> guest writer.<br /><br />Sternberg created the blog <a href="http://unnecessaryjournalismphrases.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Unnecessary Journalism Phrases</em></a> in September, and is steadily filling it with all sorts of journalism writing faux pas -- and examples from the worst offenders.<br />

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4 Oct

A new fellowship for foreign reporting

<p>It's a unique opportunity for any Canadian journalist or graduate student who wants to pursue a significant foreign story and needs the money to do it.</p>

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4 Oct

Journalism in the age of data: video

<p>Whether you have no idea what data visualization is, how it can be used a storytelling medium, or already love it and want to learn more, <a href="http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/#.TnhTLKSo-kQ.twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">check out this video</a> produced during the 2009/10 Knight Journalism Fellowship. And if you've already seen it, it's worth a refresher.</p>

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