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29 Apr

Toronto Star union proposes new centralized desk to minimize page editor layoffs

<p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> union has put together a proposal which it says will avoid most layoffs and save the company 50 per cent more than contracting out editing services to Pagemasters North America.</p><p>The union presented its plan for $1.46 million in annual savings to management on Friday and are expecting a response Tuesday at 11:30 a.m, says union chair Stuart Laidlaw. A key component of the union proposal is the creation of one multimedia production desk that gets rid of department silos and creates a pool of paginators and editors for both pages and the web.</p>

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29 Apr

CBC Executive VP for English Services departs for job at Twitter

<p>Kirstine Stewart, CBC’s executive vice president English Services, has left the public broadcasterto become the managing director of Twitter Canada.</p>

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29 Apr

Les anciens athlètes font-il de bons journalistes sportifs?

<p> </p><p><em>Par Samuel Larochelle (@SamuelLarochel)</em></p>

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26 Apr

CBC creates new position for newsroom liaison with Ombudsman office

<p>The CBC has created a new position to act as a liaison between the newsroom and the Office of the Ombudsman. </p><p>Jack Nagler, currently the managing editor of Radio News programs, will be the new director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement at CBC. </p>

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26 Apr

Read the CBC memo on Jack Nagler’s new appointment

<p>I am pleased to announce that Jack Nagler will be our new Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement.  This is a recently created role within my management structure that will deal with existing files within CBC News and be mandated to take on new priorities.  More specifically, he will more actively manage the relationship with our audience and our stakeholders, including educational institutions.</p>

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26 Apr

Opinion: Gordon Fisher, Don’t blame reporters and editors for the problems of the newspaper industry

<p><strong>By John Gordon Miller</strong></p><p>It's official: Working as a reporter is the worst job you can get -- if you can get one, that is, and if you are lucky enough to keep it.</p><p>That's what the American-based career guidance website <em>CareerCast.com</em> says anyway. Thanks to shrinking newsrooms, dwindling budgets, the stress of deadlines, low pay and competition from online news organizations, newspaper reporter ranks last among 200 jobs -- behind enlisted soldier, lumberjack, dairy farmer, meter reader and roofer.</p>

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26 Apr

UPDATED: New Saskatoon radio morning show delayed; CBC applies for CRTC licence 3 days before launch date

<p><strong>By Ashleigh Mattern</strong></p><p><span>The on-air launch of Saskatoon's first dedicated CBC radio morning show has been indefinitely delayed pending regulatory approval from the CRTC.</span></p><p><span>CBC spokesman Angus McKinnon confirmed to J-Source that CBC had in only finalized and sent in their application to broadcast from Saskatoon on Friday - just three days before the launch date of the new service. </span></p>

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26 Apr

Guardian (P.E.I) goes behind paywall

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Subscribers have an All-Access Pass to The Guardian's three platforms, anywhere, anytime: <a href="http://t.co/N39f7kdVUV" title="http://twitter.com/PEIGuardian/status/327504469808009217/photo/1">twitter.com/PEIGuardian/st…</a></p>

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25 Apr

Half a century of investigative journalism at the CBC

<p>The CBC has created some of the most important and memorable examples of Canadian investigative journalism over the last half century, often leading to sweeping policy and legislative changes.<br /><br />Modern investigative journalism began to expand in the 1950s, and the CBC was in the forefront of creating new techniques and ways of working. Journalists like Douglas Leiterman, Ross McLean and Patrick Watson made a significant contribution to investigative techniques in those early years, laying the foundation for further advances in the decades that followed.<br />

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25 Apr

Why being a news reporter is NOT the worst job in the world

<p><em><a href="https://twitter.com/paulgknox">Paul Knox</a> is an associate professor of journalism at Ryerson University and collected his first pay cheque for newspaper reporting in May 1968. He writes a spirited defence of newspaper reporting, and that it ain't all that bad.</em></p><p>So being a news reporter is the worst job in the world?</p><p>Worse than cleaning toilets, collecting garbage or checking out groceries?</p>

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