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4 Feb

Long-time Sherbrooke Record editor Charles Bury dead

<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/Charles Bury_0.PNG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" />Charles Bury, longtime editor of the <em>Sherbrooke Record</em> newspaper and former chair of the Canadian Association of Journalists, died from advanced liver cancer at 67.</p><p>Bury ran the only daily English-language newspaper in the Eastern Townships, according to CBC Montreal.</p>

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4 Feb

Rompre le contrôle de l’image publique: le cas des débats télévisés

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/9782706118159FS_0.gif" title="" />Dans son livre intitulé <em>Les débats télévisés en 36 questions-réponses</em>, le chercheur Gaël Villeneuve aide le public à comprendre comment fonctionnent les débats politiques. Ainsi selon lui, si les journalistes cherchent la perle, la perte de contrôle, les politiciens tentent de mettre leur adversaire au tapis sans employer la violence. Tous se prêtent donc au jeu. Et à la télé.

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4 Feb

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to shoot aquariums

<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 Rene Johnston shows you how to capture great images when shooting through glass at an aquarium.</p>

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3 Feb

Public Editor: Pennsylvania website plagiarizes from Toronto Star

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1_17.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the<em> Toronto Star</em></strong></p><p>This is a morality tale about publishing in the digital age: the story of how the work of a <em>Toronto Star</em> reporter was ripped off and published by a rural Pennsylvania news website.</p>

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3 Feb

Globe public editor: The distinction between editorial and advertising should be clear

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_53.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Recently, the news section included an article on Olympics design. The article was about the design of the Richmond Olympic Oval, built for the Vancouver Games. But a sidebar caused some confusion from a few readers.</p><p>The sidebar included a reference to an app and also to sponsorship by a car company.</p>

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3 Feb

Globe public editor: More irritating grammatical errors

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_51.JPG" title="" /></p><div><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></div><p>Recently, I wrote about readers’ pet peeves on <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/community/inside-the-globe/public-editor-the-top-five-grammatical-mistakes/article16499837/#dashboard/follows/" title="">grammatical errors</a> and I invited other readers to send me theirs.</p>

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3 Feb

Budget lockups: a journalist’s survival guide

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Budget_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>A reporter files a story on the federal budget during the media lock-up prior to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's speech in the House of Commons on June 6, 2011. Photo courtesy of Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press. </em></p><p><strong>By Ellen Russell</strong></p>

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3 Feb

New station 105.9 The Region provides local news for York Region

<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/105.9 FM The Region_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>York Region, a suburb of Toronto, has a new independent radio station that started airing local news, traffic and weather programming in December. The station, <a href="http://www.1059theregion.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">105.9 FM The Region</a>, will celebrate its official launch on Feb. 5.</p>

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3 Feb

Radio-Canada: le syndicat crie au chantage

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/logo_0.jpg" title="" />En réponse à la note interne du PDG du diffuseur public Hubert Lacroix, annonçant des «nuages sombres» et préparant les employés à des «décisions difficiles» dans les prochains mois, le Syndicat des communications dénonce l’insolence de la direction, nie les difficultés financières avancées et croit plutôt en un choix idéologique délibéré.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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3 Feb

Newfoundland and Labrador to review controversial access-to-information law

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p>Tom Marshall, interim premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has announced that three independent experts will review the province’s controversial access to information law, The Canadian Press <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/newfoundland-to-hold-independent-review-of-contentious-access-to-info-law/article16619480/#dashboard/follows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p>

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