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20 Feb

Hannah Yoon wins Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award

<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/Hannah Yoon_0.JPG" title="" /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjfprograms/sets/72157641218246013/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Yoon</a>, a Loyalist College student and a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in the <em>Kitchener-Waterloo Record</em>, has won the Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.</p>

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20 Feb

Le journalisme, un métier en pleine «crise identitaire»

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Couverture-NCS-11-e1390501609876_0.jpg" title="" />Les Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme consacrent leur tout dernier numéro à la place des médias et au rôle du journalisme dans la société québécoise d’aujourd’hui. Leur credo, la droitisation de la sphère médiatique dans un contexte d’hyperconcentration de la presse et de montée de l’information spectacle.

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20 Feb

Dan Rowe is J-Source’s new book review editor

<p><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><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/Dan Rowe_0.JPG" title="" />I’m pleased to welcome Dan Rowe as J-Source’s new book review editor.</p>

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20 Feb

Bloomberg expands in Canada

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Bloomberg_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>It’s not often you hear of a media company growing its ranks, but Bloomberg has big plans to grab a bigger share of the financial journalism market in Canada.</p>

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20 Feb

Why bother with data-driven journalism?

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/crude_awakening3[1].JPG" title="" /><em>Courtesy globalnews.ca</em></p><p><strong>By</strong> <strong>Anna Mehler Paperny</strong></p><p>Why bother with data-driven journalism?</p><p>Because there’s more data out there than ever before and not nearly enough people asking it questions.</p><p>Because trend stories aren’t good enough. Nor is telling readers something they already know.</p>

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19 Feb

B.C. journalist Peter Clemente has died

<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/Peter Clemente_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong style="font-size: 10px;">By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Peter Clemente, a veteran Vancouver broadcast journalist, died from an undisclosed illness on Feb. 12.</p>

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19 Feb

Rogers moves to group publisher structure

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Roger's Magazines_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Rogers Media is shaking up its management structure: instead of having a publisher for each of its 10 individual titles, the company has streamlined to having four group publishers for its consumer magazines.</p>

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19 Feb

Il n’y aura pas de bourse Fernand-Seguin cette année

<p><strong>Parce que les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) ont décidé de ne pas soutenir la bourse, et parce que l’Association des communicateurs scientifiques du Québec (ACS) n’a pas trouvé d’autres partenaires, il n’y aura pas de bourse Fernand-Seguin en journalisme scientifique cette année. Une annonce perçue comme une bien mauvaise nouvelle par nombre d’anciens lauréats. </strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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19 Feb

How to keep your emotional distance as a journalist

<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/Hospital-2_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Ishani Nath</strong></p>

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19 Feb

The Unknowable Country: What does Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index actually mean?

<p><strong>By Sean Holman</strong></p><p>Last year, the country's freedom of information commissioners <a href="http://seanholman.com/2013/10/28/the-unknowable-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a modernization of the antiquated laws that are supposed to allow, but in many cases, now frustrate journalists' access to public records.</p><p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.law-democracy.org/live/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nov-2013-Chart2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centre for Law and Democracy, 55 other nations have stronger information rights laws than we do.</p>

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