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21 Sep

The surprising off-air lives of on-air people

The grandfatherly on-air Peter Gzowski was an act. Joan Rivers carefully crafted her sarcastic and cruel on-air persona. Former long-time CBC Radio host Andy Barrie reviews two new offerings – […]

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21 Sep

A working journalist reflects on becoming a new j-teacher

<p>By Melanie Coulson<br />Senior Editor and Blogger with the Ottawa Citizen</p><p>It has been 12 years since I left the relative safety and security of Carleton’s journalism school and went out to become “a journalist”. It was mysterious, exciting and worrisome: how do you land that first  job?</p><p>I remember asking Dianne Francis of the Financial Post what advice she had for an aspiring journalist while working at the student newspaper and completing an undergraduate degree at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.</p>

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21 Sep

Top 10 conversations in journalism today

<p><img align="Left" alt="Reporter" border="0" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/reporter.jpg" style="width: 134px; height: 163px;" title="Reporter" />Summer's over, are you ready to talk shop and impress your peers? Yeah, that’s what we were afraid of. Our guide to the top 10 (okay, 11) conversations in journalism today is a good place to start (in no particular order).<br /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Canwest newspapers reborn as Postmedia</span><br />

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21 Sep

N.B. blogger heads to trial

CBC has an interesting story about a blogger who is going to trial on a charge of obstructing justice, in connection with a demonstration in Saint John. The blogger, Charles […]

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20 Sep

Contenus commandités: le mur éthique en danger

«L’avenir est aux contenus gratuits, mais parfumés», c’est-à-dire produits directement pour répondre aux besoins des annonceurs. C’est le point de vue qu’a défendu le cofondateur de Bombe.tv, Maxime Fleurant lors […]

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20 Sep

Right to protect sources is part of free expression: top European court

The Dutch government is moving to reinforce the right of journalists to protect sources after a major ruling by the European Community’s top human-rights court.  The Grand Chamber of the […]

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20 Sep

Blanket ban on Stafford case attacked as ‘absurd’

Canada’s leading newspapers and media law experts have condemned a sweeping publication ban imposed April 30 on a hearing in the Tori Stafford murder case. Justice Dougald McDermid of Ontario’s […]

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20 Sep

Court unmasks anonymous media site posters

NEWS – In what may be the first case of its kind involving comments posted to a Canadian media website, the Halifax weekly The Coast has been ordered to identify […]

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20 Sep

Source protection: ‘Disappointing’ ruling has silver lining

By Brian MacLeod Rogers On May 7 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the appeal brought by the National Post and Andrew McIntosh to set aside a search warrant […]

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20 Sep

The upside of the confidential sources ruling

By Dean JobbThe next-day headlines focussed on the Supreme Court of Canada’s refusal to give journalists the constitutional right to protect sources, but they didn’t tell the whole story. There’s […]

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