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4 Feb

Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award winner announced

Twenty-four year old freelance photojournalist Adrien Veczan has been awarded the first Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award, the Canadian Journalism Foundation and The Canadian Press (CP) announced. As winner of the […]

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4 Feb

Olympic criticism by outsiders hard to bear

A Globe and Mail columnist takes umbrage with how some foreign media portray Vancouver’s Olympics. Gary Mason targets two stories in particular. A Guardian piece headlined “Vancouver’s Olympics head for […]

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3 Feb

Five things I learned at the Innovate News Conference in Toronto

J-Source sent Hugo Rodrigues to the Innovate News Conference in Toronto put on by the Canadian Association of Journalist asking him to come back with five things he learned from […]

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3 Feb

The future of journalism is…Radiohead?

When magazine writer Paige Williams self-published a 6,000-word profile that “had no other home,” readers contributed online. In this case, Ira Basen writes, crowd funding worked, but what drives readers […]

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2 Feb

La responsabilité politique derrière les conflits chez Quebecor

Marc-François Bernier (Ph.D.), professeur titulaire, Université d’Ottawa Les abus de pouvoirs de Quebecor envers ses journalistes résultent de l’indifférence des parlementaires québécois. En répétant le scénario de la mise à pied […]

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2 Feb

Get your Olympics on

As the news gathering pack makes its way to B.C., J-Source’s Town Hall is digging into the ethics of Olympic reporting. Canadian journalists in particular have been dogged by charges […]

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2 Feb

On the ground in Haiti: “It’s dangerous to divorce myself from the human aspect”

After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, seeing and smelling dead bodies and telling endless tragic stories with words and images, Montreal Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery and […]

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2 Feb

VIDEO: Interview with CHEK news director Rob Germain

Employees who rescued a local TV station in Victoria won the first J-Source Journalism Integrity Award. J-Source editor-in-chief Janice Neil asked CHEK news director Rob Germain about the employee takeover […]

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2 Feb

On the ground in Haiti: “It’s dangerous to divorce myself from the human aspect”

While seeing and smelling dead bodies and working amid the destruction, Gazette photojournalist Phil Carpenter reminded himself at all times that his photo subjects are people first. (Read Sue Montgomery’s […]

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2 Feb

On the ground in Haiti: “I set down my pen and notepad and helped”

After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, running from a shaking embassy and telling endless tragic stories, Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery considers her two weeks in Haiti […]

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