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22 Jan

Krista Erickson leaves Sun TV’s Canada Live

<p> </p><p>Krista Erickson, the Sun TV host of <em>Canada Live</em>, has quit the network and moved to the United Kingdom, <em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sun-tvs-erickson-quits-her-slot-on-canada-live/article7607507/">The Globe and Mail’</a></em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sun-tvs-erickson-quits-her-slot-on-canada-live/article7607507/">s Steve Ladurantaye reports</a>. She has  since been spotted <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50139268n">reporting for CBS News London</a>.</p>

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21 Jan

Richard Garneau, French-Canadian sports journalist, dies at 82

<p>Sports journalist Richard Garneau died Sunday morning at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital at the age of 82.</p>

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21 Jan

Clean up your copy: 15 common writing errors

<p> </p><p><strong><em>By Jaclyn Law</em></strong></p><p>This crash course in copy editing will help you identify common problems in your writing, power up your prose and find solutions for copy conundrums. </p><p>Here are 15 common copy errors and how to solve them:</p><p> </p>

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21 Jan

Book review: Canadian Television: Text and Context

<p>Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson, eds., <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Television-Context-Marian-Bredin/dp/1554583616" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Canadian Television: Text and Context</em> </a>(Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012)</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Michael Stamm</strong></p>

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21 Jan

Jean-Philippe Cipriani named editor-in-chief of ProjetJ

<p> </p><p>Our French-language sister site, <a href="http://projetj.ca/">ProjetJ</a>, has named Jean-Philippe Cipriani its new editor-in-chief.</p><p>Cipriani began his journalism career at <em>Le Soleil</em> and spent ten years working at Radio-Canada across all platforms. In February 2012, he helped launch The Huffington Post Quebec, serving as its news editor.</p>

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21 Jan

Jean-Philippe Cipriani à la tête de ProjetJ

<p><span style="font-size: 10px;">COMMUNIQUÉ | MONTRÉAL, 21 janvier 2013 - ProjetJ, l’observatoire indépendant du journalisme et des médias, annonce la nomination de Jean-Philippe Cipriani au poste de rédacteur en chef.</span></p>

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18 Jan

Government statement singles out ‘controversial reporter’

<p>In what has been called an “<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Prime+minister+office+issues+amateurish+statement/7835932/story.html">unusual, if not unprecedented</a>” move, the Prime Minister’s Office and parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister Dean Del Mastro have issued a statement in response to reporting by Stephen Maher in which Maher is referred to as "controversial."</p>

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17 Jan

University of Toronto Scarborough hiring journalism lecturer

<p>The University of Toronto Scarborough campus is hiring a lecturer in journalism for a full-time teaching stream appointment to begin July 1, 2013. Deadline: March 12, 2013.</p><p>Job posting and details embedded below. </p>

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17 Jan

Idle No More and APTN

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/APTN Idle No more 2.jpg" title="" /><em>An Idle No More candlelight march in Toronto on Jan. 11, 2013. (Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrix_feet/8383820113/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matrix X on Flickr/Creative Commons</a>)</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Benjamin Shingler</strong></p>

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17 Jan

Alexis Deschênes: de l’autre côté du micro

<p><span style="font-size: 10px;">Par </span><a href="mailto:fil@dc.ulaval.ca" style="font-size: 10px;">Renée Larochelle</a><span style="font-size: 10px;">, </span><span style="font-size: 10px;"><a href="http://www.lefil.ulaval.ca/index.html">Le Fil</a>, journal de la communauté universitaire de l’Université Laval</span></p><p>Du statut de vedette montante du journalisme télévisé à celui d’étudiant en droit, il y a un grand pas qu'Alexis Deschênes a franchi avec aisance.</p>

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