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6 Jan

Postmedia News hiring a tablet producer/designer

<div><div itemprop="description"><p>Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps.</p><p><strong>Roles and responsibilities:</strong></p>

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6 Jan

Ottawa Citizen hiring a designer

<div><div itemprop="description"><p>The <em>Ottawa Citizen</em> is looking for full-time producer/designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the Citizen’s forthcoming tablet app.</p><p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">Roles and responsibilities:</strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px;">* Works closely with tablet producers to develop interactive features and ways of telling stories that are unique to the tablet</span></p><p>* Designs the app’s cover, top stories and complex interactive features</p>

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6 Jan

Postmedia hiring summer interns

<p><span style="font-size: 10px;">Postmedia News is prowling for talented, creative and high-energy students to join our newsroom in the summer of 2014. The environment is fast-paced, the job demanding. Bring a commitment to hard work and a thirst for ferreting out stories from a sometimes tough-to-crack political culture.</span></p>

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5 Jan

Ed Greenspon joins Bloomberg as Canada editor-at-large

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate editor</strong></p><p>Ed Greenspon has been appointed the Canadian editor-at-large of Bloomberg. His primary focus will be expanding the company’s investigative and explanatory journalism in Canada.  </p><p>"Bloomberg has a business model capable of supporting great reporting and the ambition to be the best wherever it competes," said Greenspon in a statement. "Canada can use more serious journalism. I'm excited to be asked to help with that objective."</p>

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20 Dec

Happy holidays from J-Source

<p>J-Source will resume publishing on Jan. 6, 2014. The next newsletter will be sent on Jan. 9. From us all of us at J-Source, happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!</p>

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20 Dec

Alberta Bill 45 does not affect journalists, government says

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Alberta’s Bill 45—which imposes fines for illegal strikes and bans counselling encouragement to strike—does not affect columnists and news reporters.</p>

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20 Dec

Province reporter’s blog Farmgate exports B.C. farm news to urban Canucks

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Farmgate.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Matt McIntosh</strong></p><p>By combining her passion for agriculture with the power of the Internet, one Vancouver-based reporter has found a way to bridge the gap between farming and the modern Canadian consumer.</p>

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20 Dec

Ontario Press Council dismisses complaint against Toronto Star for publishing photo of sexually assaulted Afghan youth

<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/Toronto Star_1.JPG" title="" /></p><p>The Ontario Press Council has dismissed a complaint against the <em>Toronto Star</em>, which ran a Getty wire photo of an Afghan youth who had been sexually abused. A complaint had been launched that the <em>Star </em>would not have published a picture of a Canadian youth in a similar situation, and that this publication of the Afghan boy’s photo led to a double standard.</p>

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19 Dec

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to shoot holiday photos with the photographer in them

<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>Tannis Toohey</strong> demonstrates three great ways photographers can get themselves into a group photo this holiday season.</p>

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19 Dec

Graham Scott named new managing editor of digital at Canadian Business

<p>Graham Scott has been named the managing editor of digital at <em>Canadian Business. </em></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>It's true: I'm now <a href="https://twitter.com/CdnBusinessMag">@CdnBusinessMag</a>'s managing editor of digital. Looking forward to being all up in your internet in 2014.</p>— Graham F. Scott (@gfscott) <a href="https://twitter.com/gfscott/statuses/413732228363874304">December 19, 2013</a></blockquote><p>Scott previously worked for <em>This Magazine</em> and <em>Precedent</em>. </p>

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