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1 Sep

Former National Post columnist appointed to Senate

Linda Frum Sokolowski, author, former feature columnist for the National Post and former contributing editor at Maclean’s, was among the nine new members Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed to the […]

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1 Sep

Toronto Star offers new media workshop

The Toronto Star is offering a 3-day web multimedia workshop for journalists in October. The course will run Monday, Oct. 5 through Wednesday, Oct. 7 and will be run by […]

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1 Sep

Global News launches redesigned website

Global News now has a newly redesigned website, the broadcaster announced. According to the news release, the new site “allows users to personalize their news experience with newsletters, breaking news […]

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1 Sep

Canadian Rural Research Network

Launched earlier this year, the Canadian Rural Research Network web portal is intended as a catch-all for research relevant to Canada’s rural areas. The site has some handy links to […]

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1 Sep

Rural Women Making Change

Rural Women Making Change is a research alliance between university researchers and women’s farm, labour and human resources groups. Their website offers summaries of some of their research projects that […]

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1 Sep

Tips, tools and tutorials for better online skills

One of the best sources of advice, links and lessons for anyone who wants to teach themselves or others to be better online journalists is the blog, Teaching Online Journalism, […]

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1 Sep

AJAs announce new categories

The Atlantic Journalism Awards has announced five new categories, which become effective immediately. The new categories are: Online News Reporting – recognizing online journalism for a single story from web […]

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1 Sep

CJF and Rotman offer media management education program

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto have partnered to create an executive education program aimed specifically at senior media managers. […]

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1 Sep

Seven mag staffers fired at Rogers

Six full-time editorial employees at Canadian Business and the editor of MoneySense lost their jobs last week in a massive shake-up at Rogers Publishing, Masthead Online reports. According to the […]

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31 Aug

If you wait long enough…

While some newspapers are still screwing up the courage to jump on the Internet bandwagon, others are jumping off. Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi asks if it’s time to emphasize […]

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