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22 Oct

Maclean’s crowd-directed coverage of Parliament Hill

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p> </p><p style="margin: 14px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.100000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.871094); ">Albeit quietly, there has been an interesting journalism experiment conducted on Parliament Hill over the last week.</p>

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22 Oct

The Globe and Mail goes live with paywall and Globe Unlimited subscription service

<p>The Globe and Mail has gone live with its paywall and its new subscription service, Globe Unlimited.</p><p><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/globe-and-mail-launch-paywall-oct-22">As J-Source reported last week</a>, The Globe has taken a metered approach to its paywall, setting the limit for free articles at 10 per month. Readers who wish to access more than that will need a Globe Unlimited account.</p>

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19 Oct

Le « chilling effect » : une croyance bien davantage qu’une réalité

<p>Par Marc-François Bernier, originellement paru sur le site de la Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme.</p><p> </p><p>On ne peut vraiment plus se fier à rien ! Il semble si naturel de croire que les décisions des tribunaux, en matière de diffamation ou de respect de la vie privée par exemple, ont pour effet de refroidir les ardeurs des journalistes (le prétendu mais non moins populaire « chilling effect »), de les inhiber au point de priver le public d’informations importantes.</p><p> </p>

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18 Oct

Roundup: Newsweek to cease print publication, go digital-only in 2013

<script src="http://storify.com/jsource/newsweek-to-cease-print-edition-at-the-end-of-2012.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="http://storify.com/jsource/newsweek-to-cease-print-edition-at-the-end-of-2012" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "Newsweek to cease print edition at the end of 2012" on Storify</a>]<h1>Newsweek to cease print edition at the end of 2012</h1><h2></h2><p>Storified by J-Source · Thu, Oct 18 2012 12:17:08</p>

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18 Oct

Recap: CJF J-Talk with editors on reinventing the modern newspaper

<p>J-Source was at the sold-out CJF J-Talk on reinventing modern newspapers on Thursday evening. <strong>Lou Clancy</strong>, vice-president of editorial and editor-in-chief of Postmedia News; <strong>Michael Cooke</strong>, editor of the Toronto Star; <strong>Charlotte Empey</strong>, editor-in-chief of Metro English Canada; and <strong>John Stackhouse</strong>, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail discussed the latest challenges to journalism and strategies to save the news business. <strong>Scott White</strong>, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Press, moderated.</p>

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18 Oct

J-Links: CRTC to rule on Bell-Astral merger; Canadian journos top social media list; #bindersfullofwomen

<p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p>With the right link this time: CRTC to rule on proposed Bell-Astral merger at 4 p.m. today <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/17/crtc-chair-to-rule-on-bell-astral-merge" title="http://bit.ly/WEoNrM">bit.ly/WEoNrM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23JLinks">#JLinks</a></p>— J-Source (@jsource) <a data-datetime="2012-10-18T15:22:33+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/jsource/status/258951206288900096">October 18, 2012</a></blockquote><script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p> </p>

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17 Oct

Move over Twitter: poll finds Canadians still watching, reading and listening to ‘old media’

<p>Canadians continue to most frequently turn to traditional platforms for their daily news despite the emergence of new online methods of consuming news, according to a new poll released Wednesday.</p><p>Data from the poll, conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of The Canadian Journalism Foundation, also shows that nearly 40 per cent of Canadians consider themselves to highly-engaged news consumers who check on the news frequently via a number of different sources.</p>

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17 Oct

Q&A with CUP president Sam Brooks

<p><em>Canadian University Press president Sam Brooks spoke with <strong>Eric Mark Do </strong>about the student press’ unique editorial voice, the Francophone representation in CUP and why its member papers find themselves facing the same challenges as newspapers across North America.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>J-Source: What do you think the role of CUP is in the development of student journalism, and in the ever-changing journalism industry as a whole?</strong></p>

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16 Oct

Peter Mansbridge goes Gangnam Style for Stratford Shakespeare Festival

<p>Turns out CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge can rock the horse dance with the best of them.</p>

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16 Oct

J-Links: Changes to National Post print edition; Advice to Hubert Lacroix; U.S. election in sound bites

<p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p>Changes to print ed. of National Post include merging Sports and Arts & Life sections, fewer stock listings <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/16/changes-to-the-print-edition-of-the-post/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" title="http://natpo.st/SZjP35">natpo.st/SZjP35</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23JLinks">#JLinks</a></p>

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