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21 Oct

Health Journalism: Balanced but Broken

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21 Oct

Mathew Ingram: Online Journalism: What’s different? What’s the same?

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21 Oct

La Presse+ a six mois

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/734519-presse-recemment-distinguee-parmi-60_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>Alors que le président et éditeur de La Presse, Guy Crevier, vante des résultats qu’il juge promoteurs sur tous les forums nationaux et internationaux, certains commentateurs s’interrogent toujours sur la pertinence du modèle économique choisi.

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21 Oct

Opinion: Community newspapers do more than fluffy, “happy news” stories

<p><strong>By Dale Bass</strong></p><p>In recent weeks, I've listened to an editor at a daily newspaper talk about how the industry is not thriving and that journalism students might have to start out their careers in small locales working for community newspapers.</p><p>If they're lucky, this editor continued, they might get to work at a small daily at some point in their careers.</p>

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21 Oct

Rabble fires editor Derrick O’Keefe amidst controversy

<p><strong>By Laurent Bastien Corbeil</strong></p><p>Online magazine Rabble.ca has laid off editor Derrick O’Keefe. The news was first announced on O’Keefe’s Twitter feed on October 7 and sparked the resignation of one of his colleagues.</p><p>“Effective October 4, Derrick O’Keefe will no longer be acting as Rabble’s editor,” Rabble said in a statement. “We thank him for his contributions in this role over the past year and wish him all the best in his future endeavours.”</p>

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21 Oct

Ward’s Words: Putting transparency in its place

<p><strong>By Stephen Ward</strong></p><p>Transparency, according to optimistic accounts, is the answer to bad government and wrong doing by corporations and news media. Let the “sunshine” of transparency enter the public domain and watch these evil forces retreat.</p><p>Transparency—monitoring how agencies operate—goes back to the trumpeting of “publicity” as a check on secretive government in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.</p>

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19 Oct

CBC ombudsman: No bias in Zimmerman trial headline

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19 Oct

Star public editor: Star need not take all responsibility for perception gap

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of <em>The Toronto Star</em></strong></p>

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19 Oct

Globe public editor: The Fords, the facts and the use of anonymous sources

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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17 Oct

Pierre Craig: lutter contre la culture du secret

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/608757_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>Le Devoir révélait ce matin la candidature d’un premier homme à la présidence de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ), en la personne de Pierre Craig, animateur de l’émission <em>La Facture</em> depuis dix ans à l’antenne de Radio-Canada et vice-président de la FPJQ depuis l’an dernier.

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