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31 Aug

Somalia ignored as crisis mounts

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Somalia famine UNHCR photo.jpg" style="width: 197px; height: 131px;" title="" /></p>

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30 Aug

Focusing on Jack Layton: How working in smaller markets prepared one reporter to cover one of the biggest stories of the year

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">CBC Videographer Charlsie Agro was called up from Windsor to work in Toronto this summer. Little did she know she'd end up covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the death of NDP leader Jack Layton. What did Agro learn? Market size doesn't matter when it comes to the essential skills of journalism.</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">“What’s the story? What’s the story?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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30 Aug

WikiLeaks calls NYT drooling, senile and evil

<p>WikiLeaks and <em>The New York Times</em> are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.<br /><br />In the past week, WikiLeaks has released more than 125,000 leaked diplomatic cables. Unlike earlier releases, however, WikiLeaks did not partner with any traditional media this time around.<br />

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30 Aug

Guerre des hebdos: Quebecor attaque en Mauricie

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Au lendemain de l'annonce de l'acquisition de deux hebdomadaires par Transcontinental dans l'Est du Québec, Quebecor riposte. Sa filiale Sun Media annonce le lancement de deux nouveaux hebdomadaires en Mauricie:<em> L'Écho de Trois-Rivières</em> et <em>L'Écho de Shawinigan</em>. Ils seront distribués dès demain à 101 000 foyers</font><font color="#000000">.</font></p>

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30 Aug

CTV Ottawa hits the road

<p>CTV Ottawa's <em>News at Six</em> is ready to hit the road. The team will deliver its dinner hour newscast live at five locations across Eastern Ontario during the week of September 12th.<br /><br />And, yes, the whole show will be done on location, with four anchors -- including Graham Richardson and Carol Anne Meehan, but also weather caster J.J Clarke and sports director Terry Marcotte -- running the show.<br />

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30 Aug

The lede desk: curbing the cliché

<p>Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the <em>San Jose Mercury News</em> from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.<br /><br />You can check out the <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/degrees-of-freedom/2011/08/30/the-lede-desk-fighting-the-scourge-of-boring-writing/">full, and hilariously-written, list</a> on the <em>Scientific American</em> website, which has reprinted the memo with Twomey's permission, but here are a couple of samples:<br />

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30 Aug

Can authors survive if the printed book dies?

<p>The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/22/are-books-dead-ewan-morrison">article about the end of books and writers</a> on its website right now -- and if you haven't read it yet, you should.<br /><br />The article is a shortened version of <a href="http://ewanmorrison.com/">Ewan Morrison</a>'s argument made recently at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that the publishing industry is in fatal decline. After reading the article, it's hard to disagree.<br />

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29 Aug

Hebdos: Transcontinental s’étend dans l’Est du Québec

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Médias Transcontinental étend sa toile dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent et en Gaspésie en acquérant la majorité des actifs de l'entreprise Avantage Consommateurs de l'Est du Québec. Cette transaction comprend les deux hebdomadaires, <em>L'Avantage votre journal</em> et <em>L'Avantage gaspésien</em>, le mensuel <em>Le Régional</em>, ainsi que le portail d'information régionale lavantage.qc.ca.</font></p>

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29 Aug

Licensing journalists? Blame it on the CBC: Ezra Levant

<p>The to-license-or-not-to-license debate is one of the most heated conversations in Canada's journalism world. Part of the anti-license faction? Well, according to Sun Media's Ezra Levant, you can point three fingers of blame: one at Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Christine St-Pierre, one at report writer Dominique Payette, and one at the CBC.</p><p>Yes, the CBC.</p>

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29 Aug

Wordstock 2011 cancelled

<p>TORONTO//by Alexandra Bosanac -- Limited interest and limited resources have forced the cancellation of <a href="http://www.rjaa.ca/">Wordstock</a>, a daylong training and development symposium that has been held at Ryerson University for the last 15 years.<br /><br />The event has been a key component of the Alumni Weekend at the university. Several issues contributed to its cancellation, says president of the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association, event chair, and organizer Don McCurdy.<br />

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