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3 Jan

An open letter to Torontoist’s new editor

In an open letter to Hamutal Dotan, the Torontoist‘s brand-new editor, writer and former Torontoistian (?) Jaime Woo offers some suggestions for creating a more inclusive site. Step one: look […]

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3 Jan

Pens and lens: Toronto Star reporters’ best photos of 2010

At the Toronto Star, there are reporters, and there are photojournalists, and there are “Two-ways” — Jim Rankin, Dale Brazao and Jim Wilkes. They’re the Star‘s answer to shrinking newsroom […]

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3 Jan

Reporter remembers Michelle Lang

Reporter Bruce Ward has written a thoughtful salute to Michelle Lang, who was killed while reporting on the war in Afghanistan on Dec. 30th, 2009. Michelle Lang Ward writes: “The […]

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3 Jan

Hamutal Dotan new EIC of Torontoist

Hamutal Dotan has replaced David Topping as the new editor-in-chief of news blog Torontoist. She’s joined by new deputy editor (and former Torontoist copy editor) Meg Campbell. In an note, […]

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3 Jan

The case for a freelance future

In a post for the newly-launched collaborative news site OpenFile.ca, journalist Craig Silverman writes about why freelance journalists are more important today than ever before. “Journalism has long been home […]

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3 Jan

David Topping leaves Torontoist for OpenFile Toronto

David Topping has left his post as editor of news blog Torontoist — a job he’s held for the last four and a half years — to become Toronto editor […]

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3 Jan

Canadian Press nails it

Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press has a masterful piece of journalism in today’s Globe and Mail on the day Michelle Lang and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan. Thanks […]

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3 Jan

Lookahead for the news media for the year by the NYT

The New York Time’s media critic, David Carr, looks ahead to the “mashup” of developments in news media industries that he says we’ll all be talking about.

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31 Dec

Le Buzz: Top 10 de l’année 2010

Le rideau tombera dans quelques heures sur l’année 2010. Pour l’équipe de ProjetJ et sa communauté, cette année a été marquée avant tout par la convergence, la déontologie, et l’éthique […]

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30 Dec

The Trauma Interview: Right or Wrong?

On a recent Today Show, the host was interviewing a woman who lost her home in a California mudslide. It was an tearful exchange, but according to this entry in […]

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