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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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15 Aug

Canadian Jewish News returns to print

<p><strong>By Paul Weinberg and Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>Canada’s only independent Jewish newspaper returned to print on Aug. 1.</p><p><em>Canadian Jewish News </em>president Donald Carr said devoted readers forced the board to reconsider its decision to go to a digital-only version in the face of declining advertising revenue. The 42-year-old weekly newspaper published its last edition on June 20 – two months after warning readers of the change. A third of the staff was laid off, including long-time editor Mordechai Ben-Dat.</p>

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15 Aug

Mark Trueman named new executive producer of Global Toronto

<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/Trueman1.jpg" title="" /></p><p>Mark Trueman has been appointed the executive producer of Global Toronto.</p><p>Trueman has been the senior producer for Global Toronto’s <em>News Hour</em> since 2010. He replaces former executive producer Jason Keel, who left the position in April.</p>

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14 Aug

Le baccalauréat en journalisme de L’Université d’Ottawa est suspendu

<p><strong>Dans son édition de ce matin, le journal <em>Le Droit</em> affirme avoir mis la main sur un rapport de mai 2012, dans lequel un comité interne à l’Université d’Ottawa conclurait à la nécessité de suspendre «le plus tôt possible», voire d’abolir purement et simplement son baccalauréat en journalisme. «Mal construit», ce programme porterait «atteinte à la réputation» de l’établissement. Quoi qu’il en soit, il n’y aura pas de nouvelle cohorte cette année.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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14 Aug

Spec on the Spot: Newspaper takes reporting back to the basics

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Spec on the Spot Molly Hayes.png" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>Imagine a slow summer news day and your assignment editor asks you to write something — anything to fill the page. It’s the dreaded streeter assignment. And yet it’s exactly the back-to-basics reporting that is earning the <em>Hamilton Spectator </em>kudos from its readers. </p>

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14 Aug

Journalistes en herbe: comment accrocher un recruteur?

<p><strong>Malgré un climat souvent qualifié de morose dans le secteur des médias, le métier de journaliste continue de faire rêver et les formations qui y mènent ne désemplissent pas. Dans ce contexte comment se démarquer pour décrocher un premier emploi dans une rédaction? Le<em> Journal de Montréal</em>, le<em> Voir</em> et <em>Infopresse </em>ont accepté de répondre à cette question. </strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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14 Aug

Globe’s communities editor Jennifer MacMillan joins Huffington Post 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/JenMac.PNG" title="" />The<em> Globe and Mail</em>’s senior communities editor Jennifer MacMillan is leaving the newspaper to join Huffington Post Canada as its new managing editor of news.</p><p>She had worked for the <em>Globe</em> for five years. MacMillan will fill the role vacated by Brodie Fenlon when he joined the CBC News as its managing editor for digital.</p>

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13 Aug

Condamnation de Sophie Durocher: les chroniqueurs ont-ils le droit de tout dire?

<p><strong>La Cour supérieure vient de statuer que non,</strong><strong> en estimant que par son imprudence, sa négligence et son manque de rigueur, la chroniqueuse du <em>Journal de Montréal</em>, Sophie Durocher, a terni l’image de <em>La Presse </em>et de son propriétaire, Gesca. Le Tribunal écrit même, noir sur blanc, qu’un chroniqueur n’a pas le droit d’exprimer une opinion erronée.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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13 Aug

Live blog: Real-Time Content In Journalism School

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13 Aug

Toronto Star launches paywall

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/TorontoStarpaywall.PNG" title="" /></p><p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> launched a metered paywall on Tuesday, asking online readers to pay if they want to read more than 10 articles a month.</p>

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