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13 Jan

National Magazine Awards entry deadline approaching

The National Magazine Awards Foundation is accepting entries for this year’s awards. The deadline for entries is Jan. 15 and “entries must be submitted online and followed by tear sheets […]

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13 Jan

Is it worth it?

The death of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang on patrol with Canadian troops in Afghanistan has produced an outpouring of sympathy from across the Canadian journalism community – not least […]

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13 Jan

CAJ announces keynote speaker for January conference

Bill Buxton, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will give the keynote speech at the Canadian Association of Journalists upcoming one-day conference on Jan. 30. According to a CAJ announcement, […]

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12 Jan

Journalism’s “mandatory potlatch”

John Tierney ponders the key question, imo, of the past decade: “When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs?” Tierney’s New York Times piece today […]

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12 Jan

The Beaver mag gets a name change

The 90-year old magazine, The Beaver: Canada’s History Magazine is changing its name to avoid “a variety of misunderstandings,” CBC News reports. Beginning in April, the mag will be called […]

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12 Jan

If you don’t enter, you can’t win

It’s awards season and there are a ton of opportunities out there for journalists to enter and win awards. Deadlines are fast approaching so check out the J-Source Awards section […]

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12 Jan

Show him the money: Murdoch battles against free content

There’s no such thing as free news, according to Rupert Murdoch, and he’s prepared to go to great lengths to prove it. Ira Basen, the new contributing editor for J-Source’s […]

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12 Jan

Globe editorial hits the front page

When the Harper government decided to prorogue Parliament, The Globe and Mail denounced it on the front page. Geoffrey Stevens asks if the wall dividing news from opinion has fallen […]

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12 Jan

Will the Canwest sale offer more of the same?

When the bank pulled the plug on Canwest’s newspaper division last week, faint hope flickered in the land. A Town Hall post asked: “Are we coming to the end of […]

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11 Jan

Reporting on abuse in the Church should look beyond victims and bureaucrats

There’s more to the story of sexual abuse by clerics than victims, abusers and self-protecting bureaucracies, writes Joyce Smith. Part of the challenge of reporting on religion is recognizing the […]

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