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25 Aug

Ghostwritten op-eds are an unacceptable deception: Dan Gillmor

<p>Ghostwritten op-eds are outright lies that deceive readers, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/24/oped-ghostwriter-deception">writes Dan Gillmor</a>, director of the Knight centre for digital media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, in a recent edition of the Guardian.</p><p>This ethical question -- should newspapers print ghostwritten op-eds -- is barely on the radar of most news organizations, he adds. But Gillmor believes it should be.</p>

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25 Aug

CTV Winnipeg’s Sylvia Kuzyk announces last day

<p>Veteran CTV Winnipeg anchor Sylvia Kuzyk's <a href="http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/ctv-winnipeg-announces-sylvia-kuzyks-final-newcast/1000545194/?CTID=1000545194&utm_source=BM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EN08252011&link_source=aypr_BM&link_targ=DailyNews">last day is official</a>. After nearly 38 years, Kuzyk's final newscast with the station wil be Sept. 2 on CTV News at Six.

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25 Aug

CAJ Montreal chapter president resigns

<p>(This article was translated from the original French article that appears on our French sister site, <a href="http://projetj.ca/article/lacj-se-dechire-autour-du-rapport-payette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ProjetJ</a>.)</p>

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24 Aug

L’ACJ se déchire autour du Rapport Payette

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Le président du chapitre montréalais de l'Association canadienne des journalistes (ACJ), Roger-Luc Chayer, a claqué la porte de l'organisation hier.

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24 Aug

Commenting on the dead: all in the timing?

<p><em>When Christie Blatchford came under fire for critiquing Jack Layton’s letter to Canadians on the day of his death, the question became: how much should taste, and sensitivities of timing, encumber opinion journalism? J-Source's <strong>Ivor Shapiro</strong> thinks there’s another question: what exactly is “journalistic” about the expression of opinions?</em></p>

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24 Aug

Five Questions for David Beers

<p>J-Source <em>talks to <a href="http://thetyee.ca/">Tyee</a> editor and founder <strong>David Beers</strong> about being the puffer fish of social media, why long-form works online, and how the B.C.-based online publication is rounding out the journalistic conversation in Canada.</em></p>

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24 Aug

On your mark: Newspapers perform

<p><em>The Interactive Advertising Bureau recently reported that its members had thoroughly thumped daily newspapers in the great ad revenue fight. Not so fast, writes <strong>Susan Brophy Down</strong>, managing director, dailies, of Newspapers Canada. This story also appears on the <a href="http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/news/research/your-mark-newspapers-perform">Newspapers Canada website</a>.</em></p>

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24 Aug

The Future of News: RTDNA

<p><em>First-ever RTDNA digital chair <strong>Andrew Lundy</strong> and RTDNA president <strong>Andy LeBlanc</strong> talk optimistically on the shift toward digital, how it's changing journalism for the better, and why the recent name change is more than a simple letter swap; it's the start of a revolution.</em></p>

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24 Aug

A culture of grief and trauma

<p>This week’s Resolute Bay <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/20/north-air-crash.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane crash</a> has journalists scrambling for <a href="http://globalnews.ca/regina/canada/first+air+says+cause+of+jet+crash+unknown+2+of+3+survivors+sent+to+ottawa/6442467531/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reactions</a> from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/trauma-interview-right-or-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trauma interview</a> is an increasingly common assignment.

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24 Aug

A culture of grief?

<p>This week’s Resolute Bay <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/20/north-air-crash.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane crash</a> has journalists scrambling for <a href="http://globalnews.ca/regina/canada/first+air+says+cause+of+jet+crash+unknown+2+of+3+survivors+sent+to+ottawa/6442467531/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reactions</a> from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/trauma-interview-right-or-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trauma interview</a> is an increasingly common assignment.

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