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5 May

The Coast takes CAJ’s top investigative award

<p><em>The Coast</em>'s investigation into then Halifax mayor’s role as executor of a family friend’s estate took the Canadian Association of Journalists’ top prize for investigative journalism.</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px;">Reporter Tim Bousquet of <em>The Coast</em> was the recipient of the 2012 Don McGillivray Award, which is selected from the winners of the CAJ's investigative categories. </span></p>

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5 May

Globe and Mail, La Presse and Toronto Star tie at the NNA

<p>The Globe and Mail, La Presse and the Toronto Star each took home four National Newspaper Awards. Meanwhile, the Canadian Press and the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em> each took two prizes. </p><p>The winners were announced at an awards ceremony in Ottawa on Friday. The shortlisted finalists received citations of merit. </p><p>Here are the winners, according to the <a href="http://www.nna-ccj.ca/winners-and-runners-up-announced-for-2012-national-newspaper-awards/">press release</a>. </p><p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">Multimedia Feature:</strong></p>

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5 May

J-Source live blog of CAJ Conference Day 3

<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="600" src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=99436&ThemeId=4601" style="border: 1px solid #000" width="400"></iframe></p>

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3 May

Journée mondiale de la liberté de presse: le Canada dénoncé pour son manque de transparence

<p> </p><p>En cette Journée internationale de la liberté de la presse, le Canada est interpellé dans le rapport annuel de Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (<a href="http://www.cjfe.org/sites/default/files/2013_CJFE_Review-of-free-expression-in-Canada.pdf">ici en version .pdf</a>), qui accorde la note D- au gouvernement Harper.</p><p>L’organisation dénonce le silence imposé aux scientifiques par Pêches et Océans Canada, de même que des policiers qui se sont fait passer pour des journalistes afin de surveiller des militants autochtones.</p>

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3 May

La défense de la liberté de la presse, un combat de tous les instants

<p> </p><h1 align="left" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-size: 11px; margin: 3px 0px 5px; line-height: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><em>Brian Myles, président de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec</em></h1><h1 align="left" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-size: 11px; margin: 3px 0px 5px; line-height: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> </h1><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Myles_0.jpeg" title="" /></p>

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3 May

CJFE Freedom of Expression Review cites many problems, some good signs

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.cjfe.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian Journalists for Free Expression</a> has released its annual <a href="https://cjfe.org/resources/features/2013review" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Review of Free Expression in Canada</a>, surveying free expression and access to information issues and grading various institutions from A to F on their performance in the past year.</p><p>“Freedom of expression in Canada truly does span the spectrum from head of the class to flunking out,” the report observes.</p>

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2 May

Maher, McGregor win World Press Freedom Award

<p>Postmedia News' Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor of the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em> have been named recipients of the World Press Freedom Award. </p>

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2 May

“Death sentence” for Sun News if channel doesn’t get mandatory carriage

<script src="//storify.com/jsource/sun-news-network-at-the-crtc-hearings.js"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/jsource/sun-news-network-at-the-crtc-hearings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "Sun News Network at the CRTC hearings" on Storify</a>]</noscript>

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2 May

Canadian journalist Julia Belluz named Knight Science Journalism Fellow

<p><span style="font-size: 10px;">Julia Belluz,</span><span style="font-size: 10px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10px;"> senior editor at </span><em style="font-size: 10px;">The Medical Post</em><span style="font-size: 10px;"> and creator of the Toronto-based </span><em style="font-size: 10px;">Science-ish</em><span style="font-size: 10px;"> blog on </span><em style="font-size: 10px;">macleans.ca</em><span style="font-size: 10px;">, was named one of 12 <a href="http://ksj.mit.edu/seminars-news/news/2013-14-knight-fellows-selected">Knight Science Journalism fellows</a>.</span></p>

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2 May

tonight signs TTC distribution deal

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p><em>tonight</em> newspaper has scored big with a distribution deal that allows the free biweekly paper inside the TTC subway stations as of this week.</p><p>Publisher and co-founder John Cameron said <em>tonight</em> had been chasing after this deal since its inception four years ago. Although the newspaper is handed out by newsies outside the stations, Cameron says actually having the newspaper on Gateway Newstands inside the stations will boost readership.</p>

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