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13 Mar

Ask a Mentor: How to cover police, fire and other emergencies?

<p><em>Ask a Mentor is a collaboration between J-Source and the Canadian Association of Journalists. The goal of the section is to provide advice to journalists and journalism students who may not have direct access to a mentor or subject matter expert on a particular topic.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Emergency_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Creative Commons</em></p><p><em>The question:</em></p>

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13 Mar

Book Review: Crazy Town hastily written but a gripping read

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Crazy Town_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>Reviewed by Jan Wong</strong></p><p>In 1998, after a lot of cash went missing from a stash behind a loose brick in his basement wall, Doug Ford Sr. forced his four adult children to take lie detector tests. Kathy, Randy, Doug Jr. and Rob all had denied stealing the money. The polygraph showed Kathy, a drug addict, was lying.</p>

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13 Mar

Sun Media restructuring, sale of Quebec weeklies will yield $67 million in savings for Quebecor

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Sun Media newspapers_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Quebecor is expected to yield $67 million in savings in 2014 from the restructuring at Sun Media and the sale of its Quebec weekly newspapers last year.</p>

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13 Mar

Élections: dans la caravane des chefs

<p><strong>Il n’y a pas que les chefs de partis qui prennent la route lorsque vient le temps de battre campagne, les journalistes aussi. Les caravanes qui sillonnent le Québec de villes en villes sont en effet composées de trois autobus, celui du chef et de ses collaborateurs, aux couleurs de la formation politique, celui des médias télévisuels et celui des journalistes de presse écrite et de radio. ProjetJ a sondé l’atmosphère avec trois reporters habitués des caravanes électorales.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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12 Mar

Take the J-Source survey on Canadian television journalists

<p>Are you a Canadian television journalist?</p><p>J-Source request two minutes of your time to fill out a short survey. The goal of the survey is to get a sense of the age, gender and ethnicity of Canadian television broadcasters who appear on-air. The results of this survey will be data mapped and appear on J-Source later this spring.</p><p>For a previous example of our data projects, please take a look at our <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/surprised-canadian-newspaper-columnists-are-mostly-male-middle-aged">survey of Canadian news columnists</a>.</p>

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12 Mar

Toronto Star journalist Marco Oved wins James Travers fellowship

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Marco Oved_0.JPG" title="" /> <em>Toronto Star</em> journalist Marco Oved was awarded the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship.</p><p>Oved will receive $25,000 and use the funds to travel to Ghana, Burkina Faso and Peru to report on development projects funded by Canadian mining companies operating in those countries. His work will be published in the <em>Star</em> in the coming months.</p>

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12 Mar

Calgary Board of Education trustees apologize to Metro reporter Jeremy Nolais

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Metro Calgary.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Six Calgary Board of Education trustees apologized to <em>Metro Calgary</em> reporter Jeremy Nolais for “inappropriate” and “unacceptable” comments they made during a heated conference call.</p>

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12 Mar

Maclean’s website gets responsive design makeover

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Maclean's new_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>The redesigned Maclean's website. All photos courtesy of Rogers Media</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Maclean’s</em> redesigned website has a new tile-based responsive design.</p>

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11 Mar

Why Langara College is teaching its journalism students how to use drones

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Drone final_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Langara College journalism student Tyler Hooper</em></p><p><strong>By Ethan Baron</strong></p><p>It swoops, it soars, it hovers, it rips up the sky like a bat out of hell. But best of all, it shoots high-resolution imagery from the air.</p>

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11 Mar

«Que Québecor réintègre le Conseil de presse apparait comme une exigence absolue»

<p><strong>C’est le point de vue du secrétaire général de l’institution, Guy Amyot, en réponse à l’annonce de la candidature de Pierre Karl Péladeau, actionnaire majoritaire du conglomérat qui contrôle 40% de l’information au Québec. Et ce sera sans conteste l’un des grands objectifs du futur président du Conseil, alors que John Gomery quitte ses fonctions au printemps et que les candidats à sa succession n’ont plus qu’une semaine pour déposer leur dossier.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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