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24 Apr

UPDATED: Saskatoon gets its first local CBC radio morning show; does not have CRTC licence

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CBC SK.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>All photos courtesy of CBC. From L-R: Newsreader Dan Kerslake, Producer Kim Garritty, Online Host Matt Kruchak, Host Leisha Grebinski.</em></p>

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24 Apr

Reporting on terror: CBC’s David Common on covering the Boston bombing

<p><em><strong>David Common</strong> was CBC</em><em>'s lead reporter on the ground in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and during an unprecedented search for the two suspects. Here in J-Source, he shares his experience following this breaking story that gripped the world.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/commoninwatertown.JPG" title="" /></p>

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23 Apr

CBC Kitchener Waterloo Morning Edition goes off air pending CRTC approval

<p> </p><h1> </h1><p>CBC Radio has to take its Morning Edition show in Kitchener-Waterloo off air while it waits for CRTC approval.</p><p>CBC filed its application for the Waterloo Region service with the CRTC in June 2012, but it did not recieve permission to broadcast. The show had launched just over a month ago and was the first new station the CBC had opened in Ontario in the last 40 years.</p><p>The broadcaster called it an "unfortunate oversight."</p>

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23 Apr

J-Source is hiring: Editor-in-Chief (part-time)

<p><strong><u>Job posting: Editor-in-Chief, J-Source.ca (part-time)</u></strong></p>

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23 Apr

Global’s data journalism team “a first” in Canada

<p><br /><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/global data_0.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>If there is one online initiative at Global News that David Skok is convinced will pay dividends in the long run, it’s the network’s <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/data-desk-investigations/">data desk</a>.  </p>

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23 Apr

Five free visualization tools recommended by Global’s data desk

<p><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/global%E2%80%99s-data-journalism-team-%E2%80%9C-first%E2%80%9D-canada">Global News data desk</a> journalist <a href="http://www.patrickcain.ca/">Patrick Cain</a> outlines his favourite five free data journalism tools:</p><p><strong>1/ Google Fusion Tables</strong></p>

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23 Apr

Why so many journalists are making the switch from BlackBerry to iPhone or Android

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/smartphone1.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_h/667441709/">Dan_H</a> / <a href="http://foter.com/">Foter.com</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC</a></em></p><p><strong>By Tracey Lindeman</strong></p><p>There was a time in the not-so-distant past when BlackBerry ruled Canadian newsrooms. Its signature QWERTY keyboard sped up emailing, texting, and even article and script-writing.</p>

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23 Apr

Postmedia employees spent $100,000 on U.S. and international roaming charges since September

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>If you’re going to travel with the company phone on a personal trip, turn off the data, Postmedia told its employees in a stern <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g1ZwuxleNZUp-QRZo2ahsfBMuA0sd2UBDu93gWH7Nl0/edit">memo</a>.</p><p>Even as Postmedia engages in cost cutting measures to make up for advertising revenue shortfall, its employees incurred U.S. and international roaming charges in excess of $100,000, with some individual users racking up bills of $10,000.</p>

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23 Apr

Live blog of The Walking Dead: Do Traditional Art Critics Have A Future?

<p>With armchair art and theatre critics proliferating online, media cutbacks reducing the number of those who critique for a living, and celebrity news trumping cultural coverage, is the relevance of the traditional art and theatre critic less--or greater--than it once was? This discussion explores the Internet's impact on art criticism, and what it means for the arts and its audiences.

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23 Apr

Live blog: CJF J-Talk with Tyler Brûlé

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