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20 Jul

Kai Nagata: difficile équilibre entre passion et lucidité

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Il y a maintenant 15 jours, le correspondant parlementaire de CTV à Québec, Kai Nagata, tournait le dos au journalisme avec fracas jugeant que ce métier, tel qu'il est pratiqué à la télévision particulièrement, se vide de son sens. Depuis, plusieurs journalistes ont réagi, témoignant leur passion renouvelée pour la profession, dont Mike Armstrong de Global et Sandra Thomas du <em>Vancouver Courrier</em>.</font></p>

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20 Jul

Hackgate: le Premier ministre Cameron se défend

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Le Premier ministre britannique, David Cameron, a affronté un feu roulant de questions ce matin à la Chambre des communes. Les parlementaires l'ont interrogé sur ses liens avec l'empire News Corp. de Rupert Murdoch. Le conglomérat est propriétaire du tabloïd <em>News of the World</em> soupçonné d'avoir corrompu la police et infiltré illégalement les boîtes vocales de quelque 4000 personnes.</font></p>

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20 Jul

How we got the story: Shelters in Haiti, Part I

<p><em>After the earthquake in Haiti last year, plenty of organizations rushed in to help. One of those was former U.S. president Bill Clinton's foundation, which promised to build several "hurricane-proof" shelter/school duos. However, in a r<a href="http://canadiancentreinvestigates.org/haiti-shelters/">ecent investigation published </a>by the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting two journalists discovered promises that look good on paper don't always look great on the ground.

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20 Jul

The Canadian Association of Journalists on certification

<p><em><strong>Alexandra Bosanac</strong> talks to recently-named CAJ president Hugo Rodrigues about one of the journalism's prickliest issues: certification. Will the CAJ support, or trash the Payette report and its suggestions? Rodrigues isn’t sure. More on why, plus the CAJ’s failing membership, and more.</em></p>

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20 Jul

Five questions for OpenFile’s Wilf Dinnick

<p><em>The community-powered news site is growing -- and fast. We talk to OpenFile's CEO Wilf Dinnick about a busy summer, the quest to commercialize, and blowing out the one-year birthday candles. </em></p>

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20 Jul

My first summer job in news

<p><em><strong>David Hedley</strong>’s first job at a community newspaper in 1980 dashed any illusions his younger-self had about the glory of work as a journalist. It also taught the future </em>Calgary Herald<em> web producer the importance of multi-tasking -- and truth. </em></p>

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20 Jul

I quit, too!

<div class="widget-preview"><div class="imagefield-preview"><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/resignation-i-quit.jpg" title="" /></div></div><p>Well, by now we all know <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/kai-nagata-quits-job-story-why-goes-viral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">why Kai Nagata quit</a>. And although Nagata’s<a href="http://j-source.ca/article/ctvs-kai-nagata-why-i-quit-my-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> critique </a>lacked the elegance (and brevity) of Edward R.

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19 Jul

Five new CBC Ombudsman reports released

<p>Kirk LaPointe has been busy.  The CBC Ombudsman has recently released five new reports. You can <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/notes.html">download and read them in full</a> from the CBC Ombudsman website, but here are some summaries:<br />

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19 Jul

Hackgate: Murdoch nie toute responsabilité

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Le patron de News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, affirme qu'il n'était pas au courant que son tabloïd, <em>News of the World</em>, infiltrait illégalement des boîtes vocales. Appelé à s'expliquer aujourd'hui devant les parlementaires britanniques en compagnie de son fils James, il a nié toute responsabilité dans le scandale du hackgate, rejetant le blâme sur ses subordonnés.</font></p>

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19 Jul

Reader’s Digest Association puts itself up for $1-billion sale: Financial Times

<p><em>The Financial Times </em><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6458f810-b147-11e0-a43e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1SaNVpXyp">is reporting</a> that the Reader's Digest Association has put itself up for a $1-billion sale "according to people with knowledge of the plans."<br /><br />The 90-year-old mega publishing and marketing company publishes more than 90 magazines,  including, of course, Reader's Digest. The company has refused to comment, but in April it <em>did</em> replace then CEO Mary Berner, who had been in the top spot for four years.<br />

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