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26 Mar

Toronto Star union proposes salary cuts to save radio room

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The Toronto Star union proposed cutting radio room reporter salaries by 20 per cent as an alternative to outsourcing the work.</p>

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26 Mar

Ford calls Toronto Star staff ‘pathological liars’

<p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> headlined Tuesday with a story of an "intoxicated" Mayor Rob Ford being asked to leave a gala event. Mayor Ford then accused <em>The Star</em> of continuing its vendetta against him, and called its staff "pathological liars." And so the acerbic battle between the mayor and the city's largest daily continues. J-Source has the round-up of videos, tweets and articles on this. </p>

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26 Mar

Omar Sachedina joins CTV parliamentary bureau

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/omarsachedina">Omar Sachedina</a> is the latest addition to the CTV parliamentary bureau. He tweeted the announcement last week.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Very excited to finally announce that I will be joining our great @<a href="https://twitter.com/ctvnews">ctvnews</a> team in Ottawa in April as Parliamentary Correspondent! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23cdnpoli">#cdnpoli</a></p>

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26 Mar

Canadian Geographic names new senior editor

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><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/Kylie.jpg" title="" /></p><p>Aaron Kylie <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/blog/posting.asp?ID=702">joined the <em>Canadian Geographic</em></a> as its new senior editor.</p>

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26 Mar

MediaSpotMe: aider les journalistes à trouver des experts

<p> </p><p>Pour tout recherchiste ou reporter, trouver des intervenants pertinents – les fameux « experts » - pour les reportages, émissions et articles est un défi quotidien. </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/SpotMe_0.jpg" title="" /></p>

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25 Mar

Is media coverage of B.C. Premier Clark sexist?

<p><strong>By Katie Hyslop, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/22/Christy-Clark-Coverage-Sexist/"><em>The Tyee</em></a></strong></p><p>It's no surprise that Premier Christy Clark has been the centre of media attention and criticism in her short tenure in the province's top job. But how much of the criticism is fair comment and how much is sexism against a female premier?</p>

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25 Mar

Global News revamps website for multiplatform viewing, launches branded content marketing strategy

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>Global News <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/403091/welcome-to-the-new-globalnews-ca/">revamped</a> its website Monday with a new user responsive design technology that automatically configures the website to fit on any screen size and resolution.</p>

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25 Mar

Winners announced for Asia Pacific Foundation media fellowships

<p>The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada announced its 2013-2014 <a href="http://www.asiapacific.ca/media/press-releases/38848">media fellowships</a> on Thursday. The program, supported in part by Cathay Pacific Airways, offers Canadian journalists the opportunity to travel and spend time in Asia to research and prepare stories that are both relevant and of interest to Canadians.</p><p>The 2013-14 Media Fellows are:</p>

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25 Mar

Les «watchblogs», ces blogueurs qui surveillent les médias traditionnels

<p> </p><p><strong>Note de lecture de la Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme de l'Université d'Ottawa</strong></p><p><em>Carolane Gratton, étudiante à la maîtrise en communication à l'Université d'Ottawa</em></p><p>Les blogues jouent un rôle de plus en plus populaire de surveillance des médias. C’est cette nouvelle situation qu’ont voulut étudier les professeurs Tim P. Vos et Stephanie Craft, de la Missouri School of Journalism, ainsi que le professeur Seth Ashley de Boise State University aux États-Unis.</p>

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22 Mar

J-Source liveblogged CJF J-Talk: How Social Media Is Changing Politics And Reporting

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