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31 Jul

Quebecor creates new Media Group

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Sun Media newspapers_1.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>Quebecor is creating a new Media Group, consolidating its entertainment and news group, that will be headed by Julie Tremblay.</p>

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30 Jul

Andrew Chang to anchor CBC News Vancouver evening shows

<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/Andrew Chang_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Andrew Chang, former host of CBC News Montreal, will anchor the 5 and 6 p. m. newscasts at CBC News Vancouver.</p>

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30 Jul

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to keep your image sensors clean

<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><p>Here's the scoop on dirty camera image sensors...how to keep them from getting dirty, and what to do if and when it happens.</p>

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30 Jul

Journalisme: Petit bilan 2014 en attendant la rentrée…

<p><strong>Avant de prendre une pause estivale, ProjetJ propose un bilan des bonnes et des moins bonnes nouvelles dans l’industrie des médias au cours du premier semestre 2014. En résumé, beaucoup de coupures de postes, des passages de témoin dans les principales organisations, l’avènement du journalisme entrepreneur et le retour en force du débat sur la transparence, la concentration et la convergence alors qu’un certain Pierre Karl Péladeau a fait son entrée à l’Assemblée nationale.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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29 Jul

TheScore lays off six features staff

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/TheScore app.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Screen grab of TheScore's app</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>TheScore has laid off six staff members.</p><p>The Toronto-based company, which offers a Facebook-style feed of sports news and game data in its mobile app, said these changes are the result of a strategic change rather than financial hardship.</p>

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29 Jul

Peggy Curran named new city editor of The Gazette

<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/Peggy Curran_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Peggy Curran is the new city editor of Montreal’s <em>The Gazette</em>.</p><p>Curran, who is a features columnist, will replace Michelle Richardson who was recently promoted to managing editor of the Montreal newspaper, tweeted media blogger and <em>Gazette</em> copy editor Steve Faguy.</p>

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29 Jul

Ashley Csanady joins Canada.com as news 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/Ashley Csanady_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Ashley Csanady is joining Canada.com as a news editor based in Toronto.</p><p>Csanady was a reporter with Queen’s Park Briefing—an e-newsletter distributed when the Ontario legislature is in session—for the past two years.</p>

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29 Jul

How media organizations are bringing news to your wristwatch

<p><strong>By Robert Washburn, Innovation Editor</strong></p><p>As news organizations move more towards a mobile-first strategy, the introduction of wearable technology is presenting a new challenge despite a less than enthusiastic embrace from consumers.</p>

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29 Jul

Il y a une vie après le journalisme

<p><strong>Si la plupart des journalistes qui quittent le métier s’en vont vers les relations publiques, l’enseignement ou la politique, certains choisissent au contraire une voie qui semble à des années lumières de leur vocation initiale. ProjetJ s’est entretenu avec quelques-uns d’entre eux. </strong></p><p><em>Durant tout le mois de juillet, ProjetJ s’est intéressé à ces ex-journalistes qui ont décidé de quitter le métier. Voici le dernier article de la série.</em></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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29 Jul

Montréal accueille les profs de journalisme

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Capture_27.JPG" title="" />Infographics and data storytelling, reflections on the sociopolitical News Flow in Africa, entertainment media use in the Middle East… des sujets parmi bien d’autres abordés lors de la 97<sup>e</sup> conférence de l’Association pour l’éducation en journalisme et communication de masse (AEJMC), une rencontre annuelle pour journalistes et communicateurs soucieux de suivre l’évolution et les

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