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22 Mar

Maisonneuve editor-in-chief resigning; mag launches new website

<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/Nelles.jpg" title="" />After nearly five years at Montreal-based magazine<em> <a href="http://maisonneuve.org/">Maisonneuve</a></em>, editor-in-chief <a href="http://drewnelles.wordpress.com/">Drew Nelles </a>is resigning. </p>

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22 Mar

Q&A with Tom Gierasimczuk, editor-in-chief of newly revamped BCBusiness

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p><em>BCBusiness</em><em> </em>has completely revamped itself from a traditional magazine to online site with the launch of a redesigned print edition in March and new website. The magazine also offers a daily newsletter and will roll out an iPad edition soon.</p>

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22 Mar

L’Avant-Garde: la communauté militaire de Québec aura son magazine

<p><strong>En mai prochain, Audrey Raby et son équipe publieront la première édition de L’Avant-Garde, un magazine bimensuel destiné à la communauté militaire de la région de Québec. Un potentiel de 40 000 lecteurs a été estimé.</strong></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Par Samuel Larochelle</i></p>

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22 Mar

La Presse+ sera gratuite!

<p><strong>Les langues se délient du côté de <em>La Presse</em>. Après avoir annoncé que l’application pour tablette serait lancée le 18 avril prochain, on sait maintenant qu’elle sera… gratuite!</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann                    </em></p>

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21 Mar

Sun News recants linking Vancouver Observer to Tides Canada; second apology in a week

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Observer-Sun apology.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>Screen shot of Sun News Network website</em></p><p>Sun News Network issued an apology for the second time in a week, this time for calling the <em>Vancouver Observer</em> an "in-house publication of Tides Foundation." </p>

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21 Mar

Recap: SAJA Talk: How are South Asian Stories covered in the Newsroom

<p><strong>Eric Mark Do</strong> live blogged the talk "<a href="http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=13648">South Asian Stories in the Newsroom</a>" for J-Source on Thursday March 21. </p>

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21 Mar

Le Québec, champion du monde du fait-divers

<p><strong>Huis clos rejeté! Les médias ont gagné leur combat, les journalistes ont finalement accès à la salle d’audience dans laquelle se déroule l’enquête préliminaire au procès Magnotta. L’occasion de parler encore un peu plus de faits-divers dans une Province qui en est déjà très friande.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p><p>Les statistiques sont implacables: selon Jean-François Dumas, président d’Influence Communication, les médias québécois offrent une couverture des faits-divers 49% supérieure à ce qu’elle</p>

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20 Mar

Newspapers experimenting with ebook content, subscription models

<p>This is second part of a two-part series on ebooks. <em><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/toronto-star-experiments-ebook-subscription-model" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Part one</a> looked at newspaper subscription models and marketing strategies for ebooks.</em></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p>

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20 Mar

La Presse to launch free tablet app

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p>

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20 Mar

Too revealing? The controversy over the Globe and Mail’s A1 photo of a figure skater

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The Globe and Mail Monday A1 photo, which showed 17-year-old Kaetlyn Osmond lifting her leg in a revealing crotch shot position, sparked outrage amongst readers. J-Source has a round-up of the reaction from journalists and the public. </p><p> </p>

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