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12 Feb

Greg Clark Award accepting applications

<p style="margin-left:2.25pt;">Early-career journalists looking to spend a week exploring their beat in greater depth are encouraged to apply for The Canadian Journalism Foundation's <a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/content/greg-clark-award" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Clark Award</a>.</p><p>The award was created in memory of one of Canada's greatest journalists - a war correspondent, an avid outdoorsman, a humorist, but above all, a great reporter who excelled at storytelling. The deadline for applications is <strong>March 14, 2014.</strong></p>

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12 Feb

5 neat things about The Globe and Mail’s Olympics site

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>In a move that shows how <em>The Globe and Mail</em> is shifting from newspaper-first to mobile-first thinking, the paper built an <a href="http://on.theglobeandmail.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entirely new website for its Olympics coverage</a> on the free WordPress platform. J-Source spoke with the site’s creators—mobile editor Matt Frehner and multimedia editor Stuart A. Thompson.</p>

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12 Feb

Classement RSF: le Canada gagne deux places

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/images_0.jpg" title="" />Après avoir dégringolé au vingtième rang l’an dernier, derrière le Costa Rica et la Namibie, le Canada grappille deux petits points cette année pour se classer au dix-huitième rang d’un classement marqué surtout par la chute vertigineuse des États-Unis, quarante-sixièmes.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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11 Feb

Mining.com hiring full-time business editor and reporter

<p>MINING.com, a leading news and blog site covering the resource sector, is looking for a full-time business editor and reporter.</p><p>Duties are the following:</p><ul><li>Researching and writing articles</li><li>Editing articles</li><li>Identifying, formatting and resizing appropriate graphics</li><li>Securing usage rights</li><li>Publishing newsletters</li><li>Soliciting news and blog submissions</li><li>Developing marketing strategies</li><li>Contributing to MINING.com’s social media presence</li></ul><p>The following skills and abilities are required:</p>

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11 Feb

Grassroots organization launches toolkit for reporting on sexual assault

<p><a href="http://femifesto.ca/home/media-toolkit/"><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/femifesto_0.JPG" title="" /></a></p><p><strong>By Mary-Katherine Boss, Student Lounge Editor                        </strong></p><p>A grassroots organization has developed a toolkit to help Canadian journalists do a better job of reporting on sexual assault.</p>

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11 Feb

CBC ombudsman: Polling pitfalls

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_29_1.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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11 Feb

Un nouveau départ pour ProjetJ

<p><strong>ProjetJ deviendra autonome grâce au soutien de ses donateurs.</strong></p><p><em>Par Colette Brin, membre du comité de direction de ProjetJ</em></p><p>En ce début d’année 2014, l’observatoire indépendant du journalisme, ProjetJ, a repris ses activités avec une organisation sensiblement modifiée.</p>

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11 Feb

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to use remotes

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p><p>Here, photographer <strong>Randy Risling</strong> shows us how he got his rooftop base-jumping shot using a remote.</p>

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11 Feb

Les dilemmes du journaliste mexicain

<p><em>Par Sébastien Gauthier, M.A. en communication, Université d’Ottawa</em></p><p>Le Mexique est reconnu comme étant l’un des endroits le plus dangereux au monde pour exercer la profession de journaliste. Depuis 2000, plus de quatre-vingt journalistes y ont été tués. Cette violence est attribuable à la lutte au narcotrafic. Pris au centre d’un véritable feu croisé, voire triangulé, les journalistes subissent les pressions exercées par le crime organisé, les médias qui les emploient et les autorités gouvernementales.</p>

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10 Feb

Book Review: Verification Handbook is a must-read for all digital journalists

<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/Verification Handbook_2.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>Reviewed by Diana Pereira</strong></p><p>It's nice to know that the process of verification in modern-day journalism now has an entire handbook dedicated to it.</p>

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