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11 Sep

Lanceurs d’alerte à leurs risques et périls

<p><strong>Manning, Snowden, Assange… traitres ou héros? Chacun a sa petite idée là-dessus. Mais lanceurs d’alerte, personne ne le conteste. CBC Radio one lance une série sur ces hommes et ces femmes, qui au nom de la vérité et de l’intérêt public, </strong><strong>décident de porter à la connaissance du public, souvent contre l’avis de leur hiérarchie, des informations qu’ils détiennent et qui selon eux, menacent l’homme, la société, l’économie ou encore l’environnement.

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10 Sep

Should journalists refuse emailed statements as substitute interviews with politicians?

<p><strong>By David P. Ball, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/09/09/BC-Gov-Boilerplate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Tyee</em></a></strong></p><p>It's a frequent dilemma for many reporters: we request a government interview for its side of a news story, and instead we're offered an emailed statement -- often a series of pre-prepared talking points, sometimes ignoring our actual questions.</p>

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10 Sep

Live Blog: Political Reporting In Real-Time

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10 Sep

Back to school: Want to work overseas? Do your research

<p><em>Many journalism students dream of working overseas, but <strong>Lily Martin</strong> turned fantasy into reality. How? Research. Here in J-Source she explains how being able to find people and information--especially through social media--makes you an asset abroad, and why you need to do your research before you pack your bags.</em></p>

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10 Sep

Postmedia puts B.C. printing facility and Calgary Herald building up for sale

<p>Postmedia Network announced it has put its <em>Calgary Herald</em> building and Surrey, B.C., printing facility for the <em>Vancouver Sun </em>and <em>The Province </em>on the market. It also entered a print outsourcing agreement with TC Transcontinental Printing for production of the <em>Calgary Herald</em> as of November 2013.</p><p>The sales would mean the loss of approximately 200 job losses in B.C. and another 60 in Calgary, Postmedia’s vice-president of communications Phyllise Gelfand told J-Source.</p>

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10 Sep

Highlights of the Ontario Press Council hearings

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10 Sep

Le Devoir accueille sa boursière AJIQ

<p><strong>Anabel Cossette Civitella débute son stage au Devoir ce matin. La jeune récipiendaire de la bourse AJIQ-Le Devoir va passer quatre semaines à la rédaction du quotidien de la rue de Bleury. Elle est la dixième à bénéficier de cette opportunité, résultat d’une entente intervenue entre l’Association des journalistes indépendants et Le Devoir au début des années 2000, pour faire cesser le conflit qui perdurait entre les deux parties concernant le respect des droits d’auteur.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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9 Sep

On jure plus sur les ondes de Québec que de Montréal

<p><strong>C’est ce que révèle une étude menée par Influence Communication. La firme spécialisée dans la surveillance et l’analyse médiatique a scrupuleusement écouté l’ensemble des médias électroniques québécois durant les deux dernières années pour en conclure que la radio est le média par excellence où l’on sacre et que «maudit/maudite» est de loin le juron le plus utilisé.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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9 Sep

“Gypsies” reference on Ezra Levant’s show violated broadcasters’ code

<p><strong>By the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council</strong></p><p>The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) released its <a href="http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2013/130909.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> concerning comments made about “Gypsies” on Sun News Network.  During his program <em>The Source</em>, Ezra Levant made negative comments about that ethnic group.  The CBSC found the broadcast in violation of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code.</p>

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9 Sep

Read the Canadian Press Social Media Policy

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/anatomy-social-media-policy">Read the column by CP's director of digital Andrew Lundy in which he explains the importance of developing this policy.</a></p>

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