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23 Aug

Town Crier employees buy the newspaper and prepare for September relaunch

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>When Multimedia Nova, the parent company that owned Toronto’s <em>Town Crier</em> newspapers, went under in May, several employees banded together to buy the newspaper and are now gearing up for a relaunch in September.</p>

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23 Aug

CBC ombudsman review of The National television report on Syrian non-intervention

<p><strong>Review from the office of the ombudsman | English Services</strong></p><p><strong>Summary</strong></p><p>The complainant asserted that a CBC Television report on <em>The National</em> suggested a connection between Israeli geopolitics and international non-intervention in Syrian strife. I did not find a violation of CBC Journalistic Standards and Practices.</p>

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22 Aug

Globe public editor: Bradley or Chelsea? How The Globe will refer to Private Manning

<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/Stead_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of The Globe and Mail</strong></p><p>Thursday morning, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/bradley-manning-will-begin-hormone-therapy-to-live-as-a-woman/article13911289/%20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Private Bradley Manning announced</a> that he is a female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea.</p>

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22 Aug

Best practices for live chats

<p><strong>By Monique Beech, national community manager for Sun Media </strong></p><p>It’s a dreaded fear among us digital types who try to engage readers by doing live events or live chats on our websites: The fear that NOBODY will ask a question or make a comment. I’ll admit there have been a few times that I’ve filled an hour virtually talking to myself, rambling on (live blog style) and adding videos and polls in a desperate attempt to fill the time. As a colleague of mine would say, CRICKETS, is the worst.</p>

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22 Aug

WikiLeaks, l’affaire Manning, les journalistes d’investigation et la protection de leurs sources

<p><strong>Le soldat Bradley Manning a été condamné hier à 35 ans de prison pour avoir transmis à WikiLeaks des milliers de documents, constituant la plus importante fuite d’informations confidentielles de l’histoire des États-Unis. Une mine d’or pour les journalistes d’investigation du monde entier, mais qui les a également obligés à réfléchir sur leurs propres pratiques et à renforcer la protection de leurs sources.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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22 Aug

Globe public editor: A look at why comments are closed on some Rob Ford stories

<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/Stead_8.jpg" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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22 Aug

Globe public editor: Do readers want just the facts?

<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/Stead_6.jpg" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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22 Aug

Nine staff take Waterloo Region Record buyouts

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>Nine people have taken buyouts at the <em>Waterloo Region Record</em>, including city editor Harvey Taylor and assistant news editor Bill Bean.</p><p>According to a <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/memo-buyouts-waterloo-region-record">memo</a> obtained by J-Source, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Lynn Haddrall, said the departures will be staggered over the coming weeks, and the newsroom will undergo a restructuring.</p>

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22 Aug

Memo: Buyouts at the Waterloo Region Record

<p><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/nine-staff-take-waterloo-region-record-buyouts"><strong>Back to the article</strong></a></p><p>Aug. 21, 2013</p><p>Memo to all editorial staff:</p><p>Thank you to everyone who applied for the voluntary departure program. It closed on Aug. 16 and we have reviewed all the applications.</p><p>Several of our colleagues will leave The Record in the coming weeks. The departures will be staggered and we will have a chance to say goodbye to the following people:</p><p>Bill Bean</p><p>Frances Barrick</p><p>Ryan Chen-Wing</p><p>Arnie Dyck</p><p>Chuck Howitt</p>

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21 Aug

Breakfast Television Montreal unveils its new broadcast studio

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/BT Panorama.PNG" title="" /></p><p>City unveiled its brand-new, 2,800-square-foot studio studio for its new Montreal <em><a href="http://www.citytv.com/montreal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Breakfast Television</a> show</em>.</p><p>The show premieres Monday, Aug. 26 at 6 a.m. with Olympic diving champion Alexandre Despastie and former CBC Montreal television journalist Joanne Vrakas as its hosts (pictured above). </p>

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