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12 May

Pat Brethour joins Brunswick News as editor-in-chief

<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/Pat Brethour_1.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Pat Brethour is leaving <em>The Globe and Mail</em> after 18 years to join Brunswick News as its editor-in-chief.</p><p>Brethour, who is the night editor, will work his last day at the <em>Globe</em> on May 23 and join Brunswick News on May 26.</p>

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12 May

Memo: Pat Brethour joins Brunswick News as editor-in-chief

<p><strong>Here is the memo from <em>The Globe and Mail</em>'s editor-in-chief David Walmsley:</strong></p><p>It is with mixed emotions The Globe announces the departure of Pat Brethour.</p><p>He leaves us on May 23 to become the Editor-in-Chief, Brunswick News. In this role, Patrick will be responsible for the strategic direction of the BNI Editorial Department, along with day-to-day management of all publications and online content for all devices and platforms.</p><p>It is a wonderful opportunity for Pat and we wish him well. We will miss his booming chuckle.</p>

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12 May

Robert Fife takes CAJ’s top investigative journalism 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/Robert Fife_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>CTV’s Robert Fife won the Canadian Association of Journalists top investigative journalism prize. Fife won the <a href="http://www.caj.ca/?p=3901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don McGillivray prize for investigative journalism</a> for his reporting on the Senate expenses scandal.</p>

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12 May

Chronicle Herald leads at Atlantic Journalism Awards

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Chronicle Herald building 1.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Ariane Hanlon</em></p><p>The <em>Chronicle Herald</em> led at the Atlantic Journalism Awards in Halifax, picking up seven gold prizes, including three wins for the <em>Herald Magazine</em>.</p><p><em>The Coast</em> followed win three wins.</p>

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12 May

Katie May wins Greg Clark 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/Katie May_1.JPG" title="" /> Katie May, a digital copy editor with the <em>Winnipeg Free Press</em>, is the winner of the Greg Clark Award for early-career journalists. </p>

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12 May

Grosse restructuration à 24 heures

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/index_8.jpg" title="" />Le quotidien gratuit de Québecor Média abolit deux postes cadres et met également à pied ses deux infographistes. Il n’y a plus de salle des nouvelles en tant que telle dans la tour de la Bourse, les journalistes affectés à l’actualité ayant maintenant leurs bureaux dans les locaux du Journal de Montréal, alors que le service culture devrait bientôt déménager au sein de l’agence QMI.</strong></p>

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12 May

Matt Hartley leaves the Financial Post

<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/Matt Hartley_0.JPG" title="" /> Matt Hartley, editor of <em>Financial Post</em>’s tech desk and Post Arcade, is leaving the Postmedia newspaper to join communications agency North Strategic as its senior editor.</p><p>Hartley will leave the <em>Post</em> after five years with the newspaper and will take up his new role at North Strategic later this May.</p>

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12 May

Christine Dobby moves to Globe as telecom reporter

<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/Christine Dobby_0.JPG" title="" /> Christine Dobby will move to <em>The Globe and Mail</em> to cover the telecom beat.</p><p>Dobby, who currently covers telecom and media for the <em>Financial Post</em>, will fill the role vacated by Rita Trichur moving to <em>Wall Street Journal</em>.</p>

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12 May

This week in Canadian media history: William Lyon Mackenzie launches Colonial Advocate in 1824

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Colonial Advocate_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>First issue of the <a href="http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/ca1.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colonial Advocate</a></em></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do, Reporter</strong></p>

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11 May

Broadcasters say no to political ads using their content. Sounds good, but can they do it?

<p><strong>By Thomas Rose, Law Editor</strong></p><p>With a provincial election underway in Ontario and four federal by-elections slated for the end of June, the timing of the announcement by Canada’s national broadcasters that they will not allow unauthorized use of their content in political ads is auspicious. </p><p>The announcement late last week by CBC, Rogers, Shaw and CTV—who own or operate the bulk of all television and radio stations in Canada—came wrapped in the ideal of journalistic independence.</p>

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