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5 Sep

Memo: Cathrin Bradbury named EIC Metro English Canada; Charlotte Empey leaves

<p><strong><em>The following is a memo obtained by J-Source stating that Cathrin Bradbury will join Metro English Canada as its vice-president and editor-in-chief on Oct. 14.</em></strong></p>

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5 Sep

Stéphanie Marin, Mélanie Marquis swap positions at The Canadian Press

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Reporter-editors Stéphanie Marin and Mélanie Marquis are swapping positions at The Canadian Press.</p><p>Marin, a parliamentary bureau reporter, will join the Montreal bureau at the end of the month, while Marquis will start in Ottawa on Sept. 8.</p>

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5 Sep

Compressions à venir au Devoir aussi

<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_devoir_0.png" title="" />Dans un article mis en ligne dès hier sur le site internet du quotidien et repris ce matin dans le format papier, son directeur, Bernard Descôteaux, explique que, comme nombre de groupes médiatiques ces dernières années, le Devoir devra se résoudre à une réduction de sa masse salariale.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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5 Sep

Public editor: Why some words have accents in the Globe and others don’t

<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/Sylvia Stead_32.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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4 Sep

5 books to whet journalism students’ appetites

<p><strong>By Dan Rowe, Books Editor</strong></p>

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4 Sep

Media Musings: Does a journalism education still matter?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/University class_5.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</em></p><p><strong>By Joe Banks</strong></p><p>My students may be shocked to know we’ve posed the question in the headline, since in the asking, there is a suggestion that it doesn’t. So I will confidently and quickly answer in the affirmative before explaining: of course it matters, and it will continue to matter.</p>

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4 Sep

6 reasons why interviewing streeters is awesome

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/TV camera_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Jimmy Thompson</em></p><p><strong>By Julie McCann, Field Notes Editor</strong></p>

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3 Sep

Colin Horgan joins federal Liberals as a speech writer

<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/Colin Horgan_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Colin Horgan, a former Parliament Hill reporter, is joining the federal Liberals as a speech writer.</p>

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3 Sep

Ask a Mentor: How do you network with journalists?

<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>Question:</p>

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3 Sep

Transcontinental shuts down 20 weeklies, lays off 80 employees

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor </strong></p><p>Transcontinental is <a href="http://tctranscontinental.com/en/-/transcontinental-inc-announces-the-results-of-the-sale-process-of-the-weekly-newspapers-in-quebec-designated-by-the-competition-bureau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shutting down</a> 20 weekly newspapers in Quebec and laying off 80 employees.</p>

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