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15 May

Register Before Early Deadline for Winnipeg Investigative Conference

<blockquote style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;" type="cite">More than 70 speakers from around the world are coming to <span class="il" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Winnipeg</span> for Holding Power to Account, an international conference on investigative journalism, democracy and human rights,<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1463460987" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class=

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13 May

J-Source will resume publishing on May 20

<p>J-Source will take a break from publishing daily between May 14 and May 19. Have a great long weekend. </p>

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13 May

24 heures: «une ambiance toxique»

<p><strong>Les langues se délient un peu au sein de Québecor suite à l’article publié hier par ProjetJ et annonçant une grosse restructuration au sein du quotidien 24 heures. Depuis le mois d’octobre, six journalistes ont quitté la salle de nouvelles et un autre est parti en congé maladie.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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13 May

Rising star: What makes Toronto photojournalist Ian Willms stand out

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Willms1.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>A young man fishes in a river that is known to be contaminated with cholera, in the village of Mirebalais, Haiti, March 29th, 2014. According to the Pan American Health Organization, the Haitian cholera epidemic is estimated to have killed approximately 9000 people in four different countries. <em style="text-align: center;">Photo courtesy of Ian Willms for the New York Times.</em></em></p>

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13 May

Faire une demande d’accès à l’information

<p><strong>Pour tout journaliste qui n’a encore jamais eu à se frotter aux lois sur l’accès à l’information, tant au provincial qu’au fédéral, l’idée de s’y coller a quelque chose de très rebutant. ProjetJ a demandé à deux spécialistes de la chose, Monique Dumont, ex-recherchiste à l’émission Enquête, à l’antenne d’Ici Radio-Canada télé, et Jean-Louis Fortin, adjoint au directeur de l’information au Journal de Montréal, en charge de former ses collègues de Québecor, de révéler quelques-unes de leurs astuces.</strong></p>

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13 May

Jacqueline Loch joins TC Media as publisher for English language magazines

<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/Loch_0.JPG" title="" /> Jacqueline Loch will join TC Media as vice-president and group publisher for its English language magazines, include <em>Canadian Living</em>, <em>ELLE Canada</em>, <em>Style at Home</em>, <em>Canadian Gardening</em>, <em>The Hockey News</em>, <em>Western Living</em>, <em>Vancouver Magazine </em>and<em> TV Guide</em>. </p><p>Loch will join TC Media on May 20.</p>

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13 May

Globe public editor: A new standard set for reporting on mental health

<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/Sylvia Stead_3.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma has unveiled <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/journalismforum.ca/mindset-mediaguide-ca/mindset-media-guide-eng" title="">an excellent guide on reporting on mental health</a> that offers great advice to all working journalists.</p>

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13 May

How Sheridan students ended up shortlisted for a Data Journalism Award

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/GenY.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Nicole Blanchett Neheli, Field Notes Editor</strong></p>

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13 May

Janet McFarland wins Landsberg Award

<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/Janet McFarland_0.JPG" title="" />Janet McFarland, a business reporter with <em>The Globe and Mail</em> whose reporting raised the issue of gender inequality on corporate boards, is the winner of the inaugural <a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/awards_landsberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Landsberg Award</a>.</p>

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12 May

Should media outlets tell readers the news was created by robots?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/robot tech.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Matt Sutton</strong></p><p>A news-writing robot created by <a href="http://automatedinsights.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Automated Insights</a> is estimated to “write” one billion stories in 2014.</p>

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