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6 Aug

Gazette announces team for four-platform strategy

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Montreal Gazette_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Illustration courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Montreal’s <em>The Gazette </em>has named four producers and four deputies to support the newsroom as it moves to Postmedia’s four-platform strategy.</p>

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5 Aug

Canada Wide Media axes BCLiving’s Chinese edition

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Canada Wide Media has pulled the plug on the Chinese edition of <em>BCLiving</em> less than a year after the magazine’s launch.</p><p>Industry watchers were cautiously optimistic when Canada Wide expanded <em>BCLiving</em> with two print editions last November—an English version published 10 times a year and a Chinese quarterly—targeting women ages 34 to 45.</p>

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5 Aug

Toronto Star Master Glass: File recovery

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p>

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5 Aug

Alison Uncles joins Maclean’s as deputy editor

<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/Alison Uncles_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Alison Uncles will join <em>Maclean’s</em> as deputy editor on Sept. 2</p><p>Uncles, who is currently the associate editor for weekends and features at the <em>Toronto Star</em>, will fill the role vacated by Anne Marie Owens, who took the helm of the <em>National Post</em> in June.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

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1 Aug

Lianne George joins Chatelaine as editorial director

<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/Lianne George_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Lianne George is the new editorial director of <em>Chatelaine</em>.</p><p>George was editor of <em>The</em> <em>Grid</em> until its parent company, Torstar, decided to cease publication last month. She will join the Roger’s-owned magazine as its editorial director on Aug. 20 and report to editor-in-chief Karine Ewart.</p>

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1 Aug

CKNW hosts Bill Good, Philip Till retire

<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/Bill Good_0.JPG" 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/Philip Till_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Long-time hosts Bill Good and Philip Till are retiring after nearly three decades with Vancouver’s CKNW radio station.</p>

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1 Aug

John Honderich, Craig Oliver named to News Hall of Fame

<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/John Honderich.JPG" 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/Craig Oliver.JPG" title="" /><strong>By the Canadian Press</strong></p><p> </p><p>Two prominent members of Canada's print and broadcast media have been named to the News Hall of Fame.</p>

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1 Aug

Bernie Lucht retires from CBC Radio

<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/Bernie Lucht_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Bernie Lucht, who was the executive producer of <em>Ideas</em> and <em>Tapestry</em>, retired from CBC Radio on July 31.</p>

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31 Jul

Statement from jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy

<p><em>Al Jazeera English</em> journalist Mohamed Fahmy released the following statement to Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) through his family. Facing the difficult decision of whether to appeal his guilty verdict to the same corrupt judiciary that unjustly convicted him in the first place, Fahmy addresses the plight that he and his colleagues are facing.</p>

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31 Jul

Jon Filson to lead launch of Toronto Star’s tablet edition

<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/Jon Filson_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Jon Filson will lead the launch of <em>Toronto Star</em>’s tablet edition.</p><p>Filson, who is the sports editor of the <em>Star</em>, will start his new role as assistant managing editor–tablet launch, on Aug. 11, according to a memo sent by managing editor Jane Davenport.</p>

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