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22 May

Star public editor: Mindset matters in mental health reporting

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Kathy English_23.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div><div><div><div style="clear:none;"><p>In writing the haunting story of a young man who killed his mother in the middle of a psychotic episode, Star reporter Amy Dempsey was well aware of the challenges for journalists in writing about mental illness.</p>

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22 May

Director of digital content Tessa Sproule leaving CBC

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Tessa Sproule_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>CBC’s director of digital content, Tessa Sproule, is leaving the public broadcaster.</p><p>Sproule told J-Source she is leaving the public broadcaster on July 31 for a startup venture, the details of which she cannot share just yet.</p>

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21 May

What’s the impact of all this data mining on the quality of journalism?

<p><strong>By Ira Basen, Future of News Editor</strong></p><p>What would you think if you knew that someone was monitoring how long it was taking you to read a story on your favourite website? And those same people also knew what device you were reading it on, what route you took to get to that page and how often you’d been there before.</p>

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21 May

CBC ombudsman: Common sense and conflict of interest

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther_11.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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21 May

Globe public editor: Does ‘known to police’ imply guilt?

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Stead_18.JPG" title="" />A reader recently took The Globe and Mail to task for using the phrase “known to police.”</p><p>It showed up in an article last month about a rapper who was killed in what Toronto police described as “brazen” gunfire after a car chase early in the morning. Police said the man was known to police and lived a high-risk, criminal lifestyle.</p>

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21 May

Public editor: The rites and wrongs of spring—the Star’s blooming bungle

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Kathy English_21.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public Editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div><div><div><div style="clear:none;"><p>In the seasons of our lives, the blossoming of spring is our annual rite of hope.</p>

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21 May

Rogers shakes up masthead at business publications

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/James Cowan_0.JPG" title="" /><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Duncan Hood.JPG" title="" /><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Jonathan Chevreau_0.JPG" title="" /></p>

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21 May

Toronto Star Master Glass: Kidding around

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p>

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21 May

Ces journalistes qui «passent» en politique

<p><strong>Voilà un titre emprunté à Lara Van Dievoet, doctorante à l’Université catholique de Louvain en Belgique, et qui cherche à comprendre pourquoi tant de reporters et autres lecteurs de nouvelles décident un jour de tout plaquer pour se mettre au service de la société et de leurs concitoyens. La jeune chercheure a présenté les premières conclusions de son étude lors du 82<sup>e</sup> congrès de l’Acfas organisé la semaine dernière à l’Université Concordia.

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21 May

Journalisme et relations publiques: des zones de flou

<p><strong>Parce que les uns et les autres proviennent souvent des mêmes formations et entretiennent des liens amicaux, parce qu’avec l’arrivée des nouvelles technologies, ils utilisent les mêmes outils, notamment les réseaux sociaux, parce qu’il y a eu ces dernières années une multiplication des métiers, tant au sein du journalisme que des relations publiques… ces deux sphères de la communication autrefois très délimitées semblent de plus en plus perméables l’une à l’autre.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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