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26 Jul

Colloque: pour un journalisme civique

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Montréal accueillera, au printemps prochain, un colloque international visant à repenser le rôle du journalisme au Canada et les politiques publiques le régissant, afin de mieux le soutenir. Intitulé «Stratégies publiques pour le journalisme dans l’environnement médiatique canadien: débats, diversité et financement», il est organisé par des chercheurs des universités McGill, Concordia et Laval, ainsi que de la Sorbonne Nouvelle à Paris.</font></p>

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26 Jul

Rogers releases second quarter results

<p>Rogers Communications <a href="http://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.portal?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=investor_1_1&investor_1_1_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2Fconsumer%2Finvestor%2FshowFinancialReportAction&_pageLabel=IR_LANDING">has released its second</a> quarter results -- and things are looking pretty good for its media division.</p><p>According to the statements, the media division's revenue grew 13 per cent, compared to the same quarter last year. Adjusted operating profit, when compared to the previous year, is up by 47 per cent.</p>

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26 Jul

L’ombudsman de Radio-Canada quitte son poste

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">L'ombudsman de Radio-Canada, Julie Miville-Dechêne, quittera son poste le 31 juillet. Entrée en fonction le 1er avril 2007, elle a été nommée pour cinq ans. Elle part donc 9 mois avant la fin de son contrat.</font></font></p>

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26 Jul

Alfred Hermida on the promise and practice of participatory journalism

<p>There's a good chance you didn't make it to the Screen Futures conference in Australia, but UBC journalism prof Alfred Hermida did. After all, the conference featured a talk based on his new co-authored book, <em>Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers</em>. Now, he's offering a write-up of the talk's <a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/07/26/how-journalists-are-rethinking-their-relationship-with-the-audience/">main points on his blog</a> -- and it's worth checking out.<br />

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26 Jul

Globe builds new home

<p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> is set to move, but only next door.<br /><br />Publisher Phillip Crawley announced Monday that the 167-year-old paper will move to the corner of Front and Spadina in Toronto, on a sport currently occupied by a car dealership.<br /><br />The paper has moved seven times in its history; the most recent move was in 1974 when its home on King Street was demolished to make way for the First Canadian Place office tower.<br /><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-to-build-a-new-home-at-front-and-spadina/article2109385/">

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25 Jul

Why the Star won’t unpublish stories on criminal charges: Kathy English

<p>In 2008, the <em>Toronto Star</em> published an article online about a Toronto man who was charged with the sexual assault of a pre-teen girl. More than a year later, the charges were dropped. "Now, not surprisingly," <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/public_editor/2011/07/22/english_the_long_halflife_of_news.html">writes <em>Toronto Star </em>public editor Kathy English</a>, "The man wants the news of his arrest to disappear from the Internet." But, when it comes to criminal charges, the Star has a policy not to unpublish.</p>

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25 Jul

Titre professionnel: l’ACJ indécise

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Six mois après le dépôt du Rapport Payette, qui recommandait au gouvernement du Québec l'adoption d'une loi pour doter les journalistes d'un titre professionnel, l'Association canadienne des journalistes reste indécise. Est-elle en faveur de la principale recommandation du Groupe de travail sur le journalisme et l'avenir de l'information? Alexandra Bosanac, collaboratrice de notre branche anglophone, J-Source, a posé la question au président de l'association, Hugo Rodrigues.</font></p>

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25 Jul

Front page coverage of Oslo from around the world: Poynter

<p><a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/140375/oslo-norway-attacks-featured-on-front-pages-across-the-globe/">Poynter has gathered</a> front page treatments from papers across the globe of the Oslo, Norway attacks. In Canada, the <em>Toronto Sun</em> and <em>National Post</em> both made the list. As Poynter notes, many papers from around the world showed a photo of the 32-year-old Norwegian man police say confessed to the killings; other papers ignored the attacks entirely.</p>

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25 Jul

No more NYT Magazine columns for Bill Keller

<p>Bill Keller's columns for the <em>New York Times Magazine</em> will end in September, six months after they started. At the same time, Keller will step down officially as executive editor of the <em>New York Times</em> paper. He will now become an op-ed columnist for the paper.</p><p><a href="http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-fighting-back-3384275?navSection=media-news&toc_preselected=65#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-3732930">In an email</a>, Keller told WWD:</p>

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25 Jul

Man who penned “Headless Body in Topless Bar” retires

<p>After 40 years with the <em>New York Post</em>, the man who penned the famous headline "Headless Body in Topless Bar" has retired.</p><p>Vincent A. Musetto penned that screaming headline in 1983, and is his most famous. As the <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/07/24/headless_body_in_topless_bar_headline_writer_retires.html"><em>Toronto Star</em></a> reports, it made <em>New York Magazine</em>'s 2003 list of best tabloid headlines. But that's not his favourite headline.</p><p>According to the <em>Star</em>:</p>

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