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29 Sep

Les quotidiens de plus en plus lus… pour le moment

<p>La plupart des quotidiens canadiens ont vu leur lectorat augmenter entre septembre 2010 et juin 2011, selon les dernières données de <a href="http://www.nadbank.com/fr/system/files/PointssaillantsLectoratNADbank201011.pdf">NADbank</a>. Ces chiffres parus aujourd'hui révèlent que plus de la moitié des adultes canadiens des 6 plus grandes villes du pays et d'Halifax lisent un quotidien tous les jours et qu'environ 8 sur 10 en lisent un chaque semaine.</p>

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28 Sep

Vancouver police serve media warrants; demand riot footage

<p>Police investigating Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots want media to hand over its footage -- and have started to serve warrants, reports the Canadian Press. You can check out the full story, <a href="http://globalnews.ca/vancouver+police+to+serve+warrants+on+media+to+obtain+riot+footage/6442491269/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. In the meantime, let us know: Should media hand over the footage, or fight the warrant?</p>

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28 Sep

This just in: The journalism review index

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28 Sep

FOI foibles

<p>The results of Canada’s latest <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/newspapers-canada-releases-foi-performance-audit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freedom of information audit</a> are in, and journalists hoping for progress since the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/foi-audit-shows-govt-still-keeping-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2007</a> and <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/annual-foi-audit-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2009</a> audits will be disappointed.

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28 Sep

Quelles sont vos sources d’info locale favorites?

<p>Loin de s'abreuver à une source d'information unique, les Américains butinent d'un média et d'une plateforme à l'autre pour s'informer sur leur communauté et leurs choix dépendent des sujets qui les intéressent, révèle une nouvelle analyse du Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Si la télévision tient toujours le haut du pavé, le glissement massif du public vers Internet se confirme.</p>

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28 Sep

Media and Human Rights conference

<p>Montreal is set to host a media and human rights conference this month.<br /><br />Officially dubbed, "The Promise of Media in Halting Mass Atrocities: A Conference to Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect", the conference will feature many guest speakers from the journalism, academic, political, and humanitarian fields.<br /><br />The list includes: Liet. General Romeo Dallaire, C.J.Chivers, war correspondent for the New York Times, La Presse editor-in-chief André Pratte, and many more.<br />

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28 Sep

Two Rogers Publishing VPs ousted

<p>Two top Rogers Publishing executives are no longer with the company.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.marketingmag.ca/uncategorized/brownlie-mitchell-leave-rogers-publishing-36757" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Marketing Magazine</em> reports</a> that Kathryn Brownlie, senior vice-president of sales, consumer publishing, and Kerry Mitchell, vice-president, consumer publishing are out after more than nine years -- each - with the company.<br /><br />Ken Whyte broke the news in an email sent out to employees Monday afternoon, adds <em>Marketing </em>reporter Jeremy Lloyd.</p>

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28 Sep

Five questions for Paul Schneidereit

<p><em>We talk to Canadian Association of Journalists past president <strong>Paul Schneidereit</strong> about the association's response to the professionalization issue in Quebec, its vote against creating the title, and why the issue's not dead yet.</em></p>

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28 Sep

Covering Ontario’s election

<p>Toronto Star<em> staff tackled the polling controversy, the ethics of voting, and the plethora of sports cliches in political writing at a panel at Toronto's Word on the Street.</em> J-Source<em>'s <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> reports.</em></p>

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27 Sep

Delays and obstacles: Newspaper Canada’s Freedom of Information Audit

<p>Freedom of information requests by journalists and “interest groups” tend to take longer to process than other requests. Governments are still responding to many requests for data with printouts or image files that can’t be manipulated with spreadsheets or other software. City contracts are confidential in Winnipeg.</p>

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