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19 Aug

No fewer journalists today than 10 years ago: Statistics Canada

<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/Chad_0.jpeg" title="" /> <strong>By Chad Skelton, for the <a href="http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/08/19/no-fewer-journalists-today-than-10-years-ago-statistics-canada/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Vancouver Sun</i></a></strong></p><p>There are just as many journalists working in Canada today as there were a decade ago, according to data from Statistics Canada.</p>

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19 Aug

Marie-France Bazzo, prête pour son nouveau défi

<p><strong>C’est une Marie-France Bazzo à la fois nerveuse et enthousiaste que Projet J a rencontrée jeudi à l’occasion du lancement de la programmation automnale d’Ici Radio-Canada Première. À dix jours de la première de sa quotidienne matinale <em>C’est pas trop tôt</em>, elle se livre, face caméra, à quelques confidences, raconte comment elle envisage son nouveau rôle de <em>morning woman</em>, quelle sera sa touche personnelle, ce qu’elle a appris de son passage dans le privé et comment elle compte gérer un emploi du temps des plus serrés. </strong></p>

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16 Aug

Roland-Yves Carignan a quitté le Devoir

<p><strong>Le départ de Roland-Yves Carignan de son poste de directeur de l’information du journal </strong><em><strong>le Devoir</strong></em><strong> a été annoncé ce matin aux salariés dans un courriel interne signé de sa rédactrice en chef Josée Boileau. Une annonce qui semble avoir pris tout le monde par surprise au sein de la rédaction.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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16 Aug

Mike McCardell and Dave Gerry join CTV British Columbia

<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/CTVBC.PNG" title="" />Long-time journalists Mike McCardell and Dave Gerry are joining CTV British Columbia’s supper hour show for a new segment called “The Last Word.”</p>

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16 Aug

Students worry about future of University of Ottawa’s journalism program

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, J-Source</strong> <strong>Associate Editor </strong></p><p>Several students from the University of Ottawa’s joint journalism program with Algonquin College are worried about their future. They told J-Source they feel their program has been discredited since the university suspended admissions to the program for this fall following a critical senate report.</p>

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16 Aug

Paywalls are more prevalent in Canada than in U.S. and U.K.

<p><strong>By Kelly Toughill, J-Source Business of Journalism editor</strong></p><p>Canadian newspapers are leading the world in charging for online news, moving to digital subscriptions much faster than papers in the United States or Europe.</p>

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15 Aug

Rentrée de la Première Chaine: Marie-France Bazzo éclipse ses petits camarades

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/source2.jpg" title="" /><strong>La grande nouveauté de la programmation d’automne d’Ici Radio-Canada Première, comme il faut dorénavant appeler feu la Première Chaine, c’est bien entendu l’arrivée de Marie-France Bazzo aux commandes de la matinale. Pour le reste, on retrouve les mêmes têtes, mais pas dans les mêmes cases.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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15 Aug

Michelle Lissel joins Global Winnipeg as weather anchor

<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/Lissel_0.jpg" title="" />Michelle Lissel will join Global Winnipeg as its new weather anchor, Shaw Media told J-Source on Thursday.</p><p>Lissel will fill the spot vacated by Kate Gajdosik, who moved west earlier this summer to work for Global BC. Lissel’s first day on air will be Aug. 19.</p>

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15 Aug

Globe Public editor: How government tries to define the news agenda

<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_2.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, Public Editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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15 Aug

Globe Public editor: Setting the record straight on an upside-down jet

<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.jpg" title="" /><b>By Sylvia Stead, Public Editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></b></p><p>Many corrections and clarifications that the <em>Globe</em> runs are pretty straightforward. A wrong name or title, an incorrect number or calculation, last week <em>Globe</em> editors heard from a number of readers who were puzzled by what seemed to be an upside-down photo of a Bombardier jet.</p>

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