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9 Mar

Trouble in US public radio; shake up at NPR

The CEO of NPR, Vivian Schiller, has resigned under pressure after one of her executives was caught on a hidden camera calling the tea party racist. The comments from NPR […]

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9 Mar

QuébecLeaks: à peine lancé, déjà discrédit

Lancée officiellement ce matin à 9h, la version québécoise de Wikileaks suscite déjà de nombreuses réactions, car son porte-parole est un ex-militant du Parti Québécois. Il s’agit de Luc Lefebvre, […]

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9 Mar

Prix Couronnement de carrière à Patrick Brown

Communiqué – Patrick Brown, correspondant à l’étranger de longue date de la CBC et SRC, lauréat de trois prix Gemini, recevra le prix Couronnement de carrière de la Fondation pour […]

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8 Mar

CRTC approves BCE Inc. takeover of CTVglobemedia

There are promises to create new jobs in newsrooms in Western Canda when BCE Inc. takes command of CTVglobemedia next month. The promises come in the CRTC decision allowing the […]

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8 Mar

Les avantages d’être une femme en journalisme

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Les femmes journalistes sont encore des cibles privilégiées de violences. De plus, malgré la forte féminisation du métier au cours des vingt dernières années, elles occupent encore les fonctions les plus précaires, constate Reporter Sans Frontières (RSF) dans son <a href="http://fr.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/journee_internationale_de_la_femme_2011.pdf">bilan de la liberté de presse chez les femmes</a>. Cependant, être une femme n'a pas que des inconvénients.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>La méthode Anne Nivat</b></p>

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8 Mar

CBC hires new head of sports properties

The man who marketed the  1992 U.S. Olympic basketball Dream Team will lend his expertise in negotiating television sports rights. Jeffrey L. Orridge is the CBC’s new executive director of […]

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8 Mar

Journalistes québécoises: 10 moments marquants

À l’occasion du 8 mars, Journée internationale de la femme, ProjetJ dresse un bref historique de l’avancée des femmes dans le journalisme québécois: 1891 Robertine Barry (alias Françoise) devient la […]

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8 Mar

The UBC J-School faces a change in leadership

The Director of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, Mary Lynn Young, is leaving her job to take on a new role at the University. […]

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8 Mar

Journalism amid revolution

As events continue to unfold in the Arab world, recent J-Source posts tackle the role of journalism. Jaron Gilinsky’s survival guide to the Egyptian revolution explains why journalists need to […]

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7 Mar

From Sarajevo to Canada: Edmonton welcomes 2011s writer-in-exile

Edmonton’s new Writer-In-Exile of 2011 was celebrated at Audreys Books, on Sunday afternoon, March 6th. His first poetry book written in English, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, was […]

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