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9 Jan

Holding their administration to account: Concordia student journalists bent on investigations

<p><em>When Concordia University’s student newspaper, </em>The Link<em>, makes shocking revelations through investigative work, the impact spreads past campus borders and into the community at large.</em></p><p> </p><p>“Why the hell didn’t I know about this?”</p>

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9 Jan

Reporters turned away from Victoria Island and Chief Spence, threatened with charges in Attawapiskat

<div>The movement that has criticized changes to legislation the federal government has proposed in Bill C-45, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_No_More" target="_blank" rel="noopener">better-known as the Idle No More movement</a>, took a while before it became the topic of mainstream political panels and front-page stories. But over the course of the movement and with her well-publicized hunger strike, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence became a “<a href="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Attawapiskat+audit+distraction+says+Idle+More+founder/7791974/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one o

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9 Jan

Silence of the labs

<p><em><strong>Kai Benson </strong>explains why the federal government's attempt to muzzle its scientists hinders public knowledge and damages science discourse in Canada.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Kai Benson, <a href="http://rrj.ca/m25739/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for the <em>Ryerson Review of Journalism</em></a></strong></p>

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9 Jan

There is ‘no such thing as an uninteresting or insignificant life’ – excerpt from Sandra Martin’s Working the Dead Beat

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9 Jan

Toronto school board director Chris Spence admits to plagiarism in a Toronto Star op-ed

<p>Toronto Distrcit School Board director Chris Spence has admitted to having plagiarized parts of his <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/01/05/without_school_sports_everyone_loses.html">Jan. 5 Toronto Star op-ed on sports in schools</a>.</p><p>Spence has penned an apology, <a href="http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=10391&menuid=41252&pageid=34610">posted to the Toronto District School Board website</a>, in which he owns up to his actions:</p>

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8 Jan

Checking your bias

<p><em>Do your biases affect your journalism? Field Notes Editor <strong>Nicole Blanchett Neheli</strong> talks with American J-prof Sue Ellen Christian, and reporters from across Canada, about strategies to ensure every story is as balanced as possible, and how reflection and ethics are the keys to objective reporting.</em></p><p> </p><p>Everyone has biases. But if you’re a journalist, bias can potentially affect how other people interpret important events and see the subjects you interview.</p>

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8 Jan

La mise en marché de la science

<p>Par Annie Labrecque</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Il y a trois mois, une étude réalisée par le scientifique Gilles-Éric Séralini sur les dangers des OGM était publiée dans la revue Food and Chemical Toxicology. L’étude a eu l’effet d’une bombe dans le milieu scientifique. Et les médias en ont fait leurs manchettes. Coup d’œil sur le traitement médiatique réservé à ce sujet controversé.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><strong>Une controverse prévue d’avance</strong></p>

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7 Jan

The Canadian Journalism Foundation opens nominations for Lifetime Achievement Award

<p>The Canadian Journalism Foundation is now accepting nominations for its annual Lifetime Achievement Award. From <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1095829/the-canadian-journalism-foundation-lifetime-achievement-award-whom-will-you-nominate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The CJF’s press release</a>:</p>

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7 Jan

Le Prix couronnement de carrière – Qui allez-vous proposer?

<p> </p><p><strong>COMMUNIQUÉ - Toronto, ON – 7 janvier 2013 – </strong>Les nominations sont acceptées<a href="https://cjffjc.wufoo.eu/forms/cjf-lifetime-achievement-award-nomination/"> en ligne</a> pour le <a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/awards_lifetime">Prix couronnement de carrière</a> annuel de la Fondation pour le journalisme canadien. Ce prix récompense une personne qui a apporté, durant sa carrière, une contribution exceptionnelle au journalisme au Canada. La date limite pour les candidatures est le<strong> 21 janvier 2013</strong>.</p>

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7 Jan

One photojournalist who doesn’t want to die having never worked for a newspaper

<p><a href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-jonas-bendiksen/">Jonas Bendiksen</a> is an award-winning Noweigan photojournalist who has shot for <em>National Geographic</em> and has a second place finish in the Daily Life Stories category for World Press Photo to his name. While he has worked on a wide range of articles, including a project documenting life in <a href="http://www.theplaceswelive.com/">slums around the world</a>, there was a job Bendiksen hadn’t done that he wanted to cross off his bucket list: A newspaper photographer.</p>

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