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24 Jan

Journalist Terrence Belford passes away

Freelance journalist Terrence Belford has died of cancer following a 42-year career in Canadian journalism, where he wrote for The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and the Toronto Star, among others. […]

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24 Jan

Globe health reporter wins public policy award

Long-time Globe and Mail public health reporter André Picard has won the Hyman Solomon Award, which recognizes “a journalist whose work provides insights into the policy-making process in Canada, and […]

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24 Jan

Maclean’s iPad app built by U.S. developer

Rogers Publishing recruited the services of U.S. firm Built by the Factory to develop its iPad app for Maclean’s, which was released last month, D.B. Scott writes in his Canadian […]

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24 Jan

Why Canada needs more media analysis education

<p>We should be teaching our children how to understand news spin and "infortainment", writes Geoff Johnson in an article for <a href="http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=c34b5b39-c1ce-4aeb-8896-66cea19d5eb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Victoria Times Colonist</span></a>. Media analysis courses should be added to high school social studies lessons, giving kids the "opportunity to watch and discuss the same news story as reported from several different points of view, even from U.S. and Canadian perspectives," he writes.<br />

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24 Jan

CRTC seeks to relax broadcast restrictions

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced earlier this month that it seeks to relax broadcast restrictions for potentially false or misleading information. Writing for The Toronto Star, University of […]

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21 Jan

Le Buzz: la bouée de sauvetage Payette

Chaque vendredi, «le Buzz» revient sur les trois textes qui ont attiré le plus votre attention sur notre site et notre fil Twitter, selon nos statistiques. Cette semaine a été […]

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21 Jan

La confidentialité des sources: un principe à concrétiser

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: italic;">Par Jennifer Brohan & Françoise Boissinot, étudiantes à l'Université Laval</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le principe de confidentialité des sources a été reconnu par la Cour suprême du Canada. Cette décision a été prise dans le cadre de l'affaire du scandale des commandites révélée par le journaliste du <span lang="fr-FR"><i>Globe and Mail</i></span><span lang="fr-FR">, Daniel Leblanc. Cependant, ce n'est qu'au cas par cas que cette protection sera accordée.</span></p>

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20 Jan

Trente: le rédacteur en chef claque la porte

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><img align="Left" alt="" border="0" height="141" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/trente.jpg" title="" width="124" />Le rédacteur en chef du <i>Trente</i>, Jonathan Trudel, a remis sa démission, pour protester contre la réduction de la publication du magazine à trois numéros par an au lieu de dix.

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20 Jan

8 journalism trends for 2011 from Nieman Lab’s Joshua Benton

Nieman Journalism Lab founding director Joshua Benton was in Toronto to discuss the future of journalism at a forum hosted by The Canadian Journalism Foundation on Tuesday. He had plenty […]

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20 Jan

Toronto Star’s “You be the Editor” challenge reveals why we don’t let the public edit newspapers

In the Toronto Star’s annual “You be the Editor” challenge, public editor Kathy English enlisted readers to decide whether they would “publish” or “not publish” certain judgements the Star newsroom […]

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