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4 Oct

Building an online community, Economist-style

<p><em>The Economist</em> has nearly 1.2 million Twitter followers, and more than 800,000 Facebook fans. How do you build a community like that? Well, tweeting about what you had for lunch probably won't do it. Challenging and engaging your online readers, however, will, says <em>The Economist</em>'s community editor Mark Johnson in a recent Q&A posted on <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/2011/09/30/the-economists-mark-johnson-ask-for-a-lot-from-your-community-and-youll-get-a-lot-in-retu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>editorsweblog.org</em></a>.</p>

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4 Oct

New programs, faces at CTV News

<p>CTV News is premiering three programs and adding some new faces -- all this week.</p><p>Amanda Blitz, Rudyard Griffiths, Tasha Kheiriddin and Scott Reid will all join as anchors. The network, after all, will need the extra staff: it is moving toward a two-anchor format for much of the day, allowing, it says, for a more conversational approach to delivering the news.</p><p>The three programs, according to the release, include:</p><p><strong>Express</strong> -- A daytime, weekday program in the conversational format. One-minute news updates broadcast every 15 minutes.</p>

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3 Oct

L’UdeM lorgne les études supérieures en journalisme

<p>Par Hugo Prévost, <a href="http://www.pieuvre.ca/">pieuvre.ca</a></p>

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30 Sep

Want to know how the transphobic ad made it into the National Post?

<p>So does the <em>Post</em>. Advertising manager Enzo Loschiavo <a href="http://openfile.ca/toronto/blog/curator-blog/curated-news/2011/update-post-apologizes-still-investigating-how-transphobic-ad-go" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told <em>OpenFile</em></a> "I'll be honest, no one saw it." Meaning, none of the checks the <em>Post</em> runs before printing an ad caught the widely-panned Institute for Canadian Values ad.<br />

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30 Sep

Dale Bass: What is Canada’s definition of a journalist?

<p>Although it can seem like it, not everybody is against the idea of creating a professional title for journalists.</p><p><em>Kamloops This Week</em> reporter and Canadian Association of Journalists chair Dale Bass has been in favour of professionalization for a long time, and she has written a thought-provoking column in her paper explaining why. While Bass doesn't believe the government should be the ones to regulate it -- as was recently proposed in Quebec -- she does think journalists should be doing it themselves.</p><p>She writes:</p>

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30 Sep

The Globe on Postmedia’s digital switch

<p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> has published an <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-glitch-in-postmedias-digital-switch/article2185559/page1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in-depth article</a> on Postmedia's efforts to go digital dubbed "The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch."<br />

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29 Sep

Le Winnipeg Sun accusé de verser dans la propagande

<p>Après avoir analysé plusieurs numéros du <em>Winnipeg Sun</em>, le chercheur Pete Hudson de l'Université du Manitoba conclut que le quotidien du groupe Quebecor/Sun est un journal de propagande. Inquiet du poids politique du conglomérat médiatique, il n'hésite pas à mettre en parallèle les liens de l'empire Murdoch avec le gouvernement Cameron en Grande-Bretagne et ceux de l'empire Quebecor avec les conservateurs de Stephen Harper.</p>

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29 Sep

Should journos publicly reveal their salary?

<p><em>Guardian</em> columnist George Monbiot thinks so -- and not just your salary, he writes, but every source of income. Book deals; how much is in your savings accounts; whether you charge rent to tenants -- all of it.</p><p><a href="http://www.monbiot.com/registry-of-interests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here's what he says on his blog</a>:</p>

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29 Sep

COPA nominees announced

<p>The second and final set of finalists in the 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards has been announced. The leaders in this round include <em>Cyberpresse</em> (seven nominations), <em>Edmonton Journal</em> and <em>Toronto Star</em> (six nominations each) in the newspaper division, while <em>Fashion </em>and<em> Truck News</em> (three nominations each) lead the magazine categories. Online-only title <em>Toronto Standard</em> takes four nominations in this round.</p>

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29 Sep

Did The Onion miss the mark with its ‘screams and gunfire’ tweet?

<p>Not everybody thought <em>The Onion</em>'s Thursday tweet "Breaking: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building" was very funny. Actually, it scared the living expletive out of some, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/the-onion-tweets-screams-and-gunfire--wheres-the-humor/2011/09/29/gIQASpCI7K_blog.html#pagebreak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports the <em>Washington Post</em></a>. Some people even thought it was a hack.<br /><br /><em>The Onion</em> isn't apologizing, saying "This is satire. That's how it works."

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