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9 Jun

Interview with Wired’s creative director

Wired staff spent months developing its new iPad app, which  become Apple’s best-selling app just hours after its May 26 launch. Loud Cloud’s Joshua Gorchov interviewed creative director Scott Dadich […]

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9 Jun

Wired’s iPad sales set to rise above print sales

Only nine days after launching its iPad edition, Wired has sold 79,000 copies – just shy of the print average of 80,000. Partial thanks go to Steve Jobs, who projected […]

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9 Jun

Tyee fellowship final countdown

With just 3 days left to donate, The Tyee‘s Investigative and Reporting fellowships are just $1,000 shy of the fiesty publication’s $10,000 goal. The money raised will fund two stories […]

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8 Jun

CJFE wants your opinions

The Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression (CJFE) plans to revamp it’s profile, and it wants your input. Take the time to fill out a short questionnaire before June 11 […]

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8 Jun

A guide to investigating anything

Ever want to see inside the brain of an investigative journalist? Harvey Cashore spent 15 years investigating the missing Airbus millions, and half a year on a lottery theft exposé. […]

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8 Jun

The growing world of blog-ournalists

Women’s Post writer Anastasia Tubanos explores the differences (and accidental similarities) between bloggers and journalists, and why it’s important to draw a distinction. “One of the biggest differences I’ve always […]

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8 Jun

We love the internet. If only it made us money.

Canadians continue to celebrate excellence in journalism by awarding the country’s best print, radio and television stories – and now, for the first time, many awards panels are considering digital […]

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8 Jun

Covering the Vatican

Ellin Bessner, a Jewish journalist, was a card-carrying member of the Vatican Press Association in the late 80s. She discusses the screening process, the uber-modern newsroom and how covering the […]

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8 Jun

Ethics 2.0 – dos and don’ts of social media

<p><img align="Left" alt="twitter" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/twitter.jpg" style="width: 190px; height: 190px;" title="Twitter" vspace="5" /><span style="font-style: italic;">Do you fact-check all your retweets? Do you publish rumours, or gossip? Is it OK to have an opinion in your personal blog?

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8 Jun

How do you say mea culpa, 140 characters at a time?

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Ivor Shapiro" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Ivor_new_headshot.JPG" style="width: 145px; height: 108px;" title="Ivor Shapiro" vspace="5" />In which </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ivor Shapiro</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, an old-dog reporter who just happens to be J-Source's ethics editor, explains how he learned, first-hand, that the new tricks of real-time reporting can be perilous.

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