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1 Oct

Know the rules about publication ban before covering the courts

<p><em>This is the final part of a weekly four-part series on legal issues journalists should be cognizant about as they embark on their careers. Read <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/what-j-students-need-know-about-protecting-anonymous-sources">Part 1 on anonymous sources</a>, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/what-journalists-need-know-about-newsgathering-and-individual%E2%80%99s-right-privacy">Part 2 on privacy</a> and <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/journalists-who-trespass-case-law-murky-both-physical-and-digital-trespass">Part 3 on trespass</a>.</em></p>

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1 Oct

Le web-journaliste est-il un journaliste comme les autres?

<p><strong>Réunis à l’Uqàm la semaine dernière à l’invitation du Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la communication, le Gricis, plusieurs chercheurs ont dressé un portrait pas très enviable du journalisme en ligne. Précaires, sédentaires, corvéables à merci, déconsidérés par ceux qui œuvrent sur d’autres supports, ils entrent également en compétition avec tous les internautes, qui génèrent gratuitement du contenu. </strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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1 Oct

Highlights: How to land your dream internship in a newsroom

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1 Oct

Un nouveau Journal avec plus de chroniqueurs

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/1381557_511552062272794_1960752834_n_0.png" title="" /></p><p><strong>Avec son nouveau logo affiché pleine page à la une ce matin à Montréal comme à Québec, le nouveau Journal ne passe pas inaperçu. Préparé dans le plus grand secret et annoncé depuis quelques jours par petites touches d’autopromotion, il débarque avec une grosse campagne publicitaire et un nouveau slogan: «le journal qu’on aime lire».</strong></p>

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1 Oct

How to succeed at long-form live blogging

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30 Sep

TC Media revises freelance contracts

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>Transcontinental Media (TC Media) has listened to its freelancers and <a href="http://m.ledevoir.com/societe/medias/388067/tc-media-s-entend-avec-ses-pigistes" style="font-size: 10px;">revised its latest contract</a> so that contributors retain moral rights and copyright to their work.</p>

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30 Sep

Myriam Berthelet prend les rênes d’Urbania

<p><a href="http://projetj.ca/article/l%E2%80%99ecole-de-communications-urbania-recoit-la-premiere-cohorte-de-son-histoire"><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Myriam-Berthelet_0.jpg" title="" /></a><strong>Après huit ans et demi de bons et loyaux services à la barre du magazine le plus insolite du paysage médiatique québécois, Catherine Perreault-Lessard a cédé sa casquette de capitaine à Myriam Berthelet.

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30 Sep

Alex Panetta named new Washington correspondent for Canadian Press

<div><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/Panetta_0.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Goodman.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" />Alex Panetta will be the new Washington correspondent for The Canadian Press.

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30 Sep

Matt O’Grady leaves post as Globe B.C. bureau chief

<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/Matt O'Grady_0.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><em>The Globe and Mail</em> is currently interviewing candidates to fill the role of B.C. bureau chief. Matt O’Grady left his position at the helm of the bureau on Sept. 16, roughly a year and a half after he joined the newspaper. </p>

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30 Sep

Memo: Canadian Press names new Washington correspondent

<p><strong>Read the related story</strong></p><p><strong>PANETTA NAMED NEW WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT</strong></p><p>I am very pleased to announce that Alex Panetta will be the new Washington correspondent for The Canadian Press. He is succeeding Lee-Anne Goodman, who will start her new position in the Ottawa bureau next week.</p>

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