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4 Aug

Le torchon brûle entre le ministère des Transports et les médias

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Depuis l'effondrement, dimanche,</font> d'une poutre à l'entrée du tunnel Viger<font color="#000000"> sur l'autoroute 720, les journalistes talonnent le ministère des Transports. Mardi, le ministre Sam Hamad a été bombardé de questions lors d'un point de presse particulièrement mouvementé, au cours duquel le journaliste de <em>La Presse</em>, Patrick Lagacé, a bousculé un attaché de presse.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><strong><font color="#000000">Journalistes en colère</font></strong></p>

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4 Aug

Deadline approaches for CMA media awards for health reporting

<p>Journalists have until Aug. 8 to submit their entries for the sixth annual 2011 media awards for health reporting.<br /><br />Categories include:<br /><br /><strong>Excellence in Print Reporting</strong> (newspaper or magazine)<br />In-depth feature series<br />In-depth feature article (Michelle Lang Award)<br />News<br />    <br /><strong>Excellence in Radio Reporting</strong><br />News<br />In-depth<br /><br /><strong>Excellence in Television Reporting</strong><br />News<br />In-depth<br /><br /><strong>Excellence in Local Reporting</strong><br />Print<br />Broadcast

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4 Aug

Online advertising revenue tops newspaper ad revenue; still second to T.V.

<p>Canadian online advertising revenues for 2010 are grew 23 per cent from 2009, hitting $2.23-billion -- and beating out newspaper ad revenue. Online revenue is now second only to TV when it comes to the overall share of Canadian media advertising revenue, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB), which recently released last year's results.<br />

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3 Aug

Gemini nominees announced

<p>The 26th annual Gemini nominees have been announced. The Gemini awards celebrate the best in English-language TV and digital media. Check out the <a href="http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini26/press/GEMINI-Nominees-LIST-News-Release-Aug-3-2011.PDF">full list of nominees here</a>, including categories such as: best breaking news, best local newscast, and best host.</p>

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3 Aug

Ken Shaw returns to CTV after treatment for prostate cancer

<p>After a two-month absence, Ken Shaw returned to the anchor's chair at CTV -- <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ken-shaw-returns-to-ctv-after-cancer-treatment-1.678388">explaining later in the broadcast</a> that he had undergone treatment for prostate cancer. No announcement explaining his absence had been made previously.<br /><br />Shaw said there was no reason he should get special attention with 25,000 men being diagnosed annually, and 5,000 dying.<br />

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3 Aug

Pourquoi Twitter fait peur à certains journalistes?

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Les réseaux sociaux sont désormais bien implantés dans les salles de rédaction au point d'être pris en compte, depuis quelques mois, par le Guide de responsabilités des travailleurs de l'information de <em>La Presse</em>, les Normes et pratiques journalistiques de Radio-Canada, et le Guide de déontologie des journalistes du Québec édité par la FPJQ. Pourtant, plusieurs demeurent réticents.

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3 Aug

Steve Maich becomes EIC of Sportsnet Magazine; leaves Canadian Business

<p>Steve Maich has been appointed publisher and editor-in-chief of Rogers' newest magazine, <em>Sportsnet</em>. Maich has been with Rogers' for seven years and was most recently editor-in-chief of <em>Canadian Business</em> and group publisher of Rogers' set of consumer biz mags, which included CB, <em>Profit</em>, and <em>MoneySense</em>.<br />

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3 Aug

Canada’s best political books

<p>The results are in. The best Canadian political book of the last 25 years, according to a popular vote, is Ezra Levant's <em>Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights</em>, published in 2009.</p>

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3 Aug

J-schools and the digital age

<p>Journalism educators everywhere are struggling to keep up with the rapid changes taking place in newsrooms and the media industry. <a href="http://merrill.umd.edu/">The University of Maryland's Philip Meril College of Journalism </a>is hosting a conference in October to bring journalists and educators together to discuss how well journalism schools are meeting the digital challenge.</p>

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3 Aug

The future of news: LiveArticle

<p>The future of news -- we bet you've heard that phrase a lot. With so many cool, new things happening in the journo world it can be hard to keep up with all the innovative -- and constantly evolving -- ways to tell stories. That's why J-Source is doing it for you. Each week, we'll feature a new idea on the block, whether it's a tool, or a new way to use that tool, or just a super sweet way to tell the story -- this is our ode to the digital world. Up this week: ScribbleLive's newest feature LiveArticle.<br />

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