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26 Sep

Accounts j-students should be following on Twitter

<p> </p><p>So you’re in j-school and the professors are telling you to make a Twitter account. You may or may not already use Twitter, but now it’s time to have a professional account for journalism. Start with the <a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/100-twitter-accounts-every-journalism-student-should-follow/s2/a550471/">100 Twitter accounts every journalism student should follow</a> that Journalism.co.uk has compiled. (And of course, Canadian students should also be following <a href="http://twitter.com/jsource">@jsource</a>! #shamelessselfpromotion)</p>

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25 Sep

J-Source’s Q&A with Carol Wainio

<p>Carol Wainio is a Canadian visual artist and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. She has also been writing about the media and Canadian columnists for years on her blog, <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/">Media Culpa</a>.

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25 Sep

The Globe and Mail disciplines columnist Margaret Wente, makes changes to senior management structure

<p> </p><p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> editor-in-chief John Stackhouse responded to allegations that high-profile columnist Margaret Wente had made major journalistic errors on Monday evening, writing in <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/editor-in-chief-john-stackhouses-memo-to-globe-and-mail-staff-on-margaret-wente-allegations/article4565665/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a memo to staff </a>that Wente's 2009 column that gained notoriety in social media over the previous five days was "unacceptable."</p>

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25 Sep

Canadian farm writer awards released

<p>The Canadian Farm Writers Federation has released the results of its annual competition. Long time Winnipeg Free Press regional reporter Bill Redekop won the top press feature award. Top winners of daily, weekly and monthly press reporting were, respectively: Mia Rabson, Winnipeg Free Press, Mary MacArthur, Western Producer and Mary Baxter, Better Farming magazine. Ontario Farmer editor Peter Reschke took gold for press column and freelance writer Ray Ford took gold for technical feature.</p>

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24 Sep

Globe Editor says controversial Wente column is “unacceptable”, violates code of conduct and “did not meet standards”; Wente writes column: “I’m not a serial plagiarist”

<p> </p><p>Globe and Mail Editor, John Stackhouse, sent this memo out to staff tonight<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/editor-in-chief-john-stackhouses-memo-to-globe-and-mail-staff-on-margaret-wente-allegations/article4565665/"> (and published it on the newspaper website):</a></p>

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24 Sep

John Miller on ‘Wentegate’

<p><strong>By John Gordon Miller, from <a href="http://www.thejournalismdoctor.ca/Blog.php/wentegate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thejournalismdoctor.ca</a></strong></p>

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24 Sep

Plagiarism is only as wrong as we make it

<p> </p><p><em>We need to hold seasoned, high-profile journalists to the same standards that we expect future generations of journalists to uphold, <strong>Anne McNeilly</strong> argues. But how the industry has, at times, responded this year to Jonah Lehrer, Fareed Zakaria and now Margaret Wente has not set the best example.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Anne McNeilly</strong></p>

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24 Sep

J-Links: The Guardian picks up Wente plagiarism story; Henry Champ passes away; Mother Jones’ emergence

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/sep/24/canada-plagiarism?CMP=twt_gu">The Guardian picks up Margaret Wente plagiarism story</a></p>

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21 Sep

Tips on breaking into the sports journalism world from Fast Break event panellists

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Fastbreak.PNG" title="" /><em>Fast Break event panellists, from left to right: Chris Jones, Akil Augustine, Julie Scott, Tas Melas</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Steph Rogers</strong></p><p>No one said that breaking into the highly competitive sports media industry was easy.</p>

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21 Sep

Globe and Mail public editor responds to questions of Wente plagiarism

<p> </p><p><em>The Globe and Mail</em>’s public editor <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/community/inside-the-globe/public-editor-we-investigate-all-allegations-against-our-writers/article4559295/">Sylvia Stead has responded to questions of plagiarism</a> by Margaret Wente that were raised after a <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/2012/09/margaret-wente-zero-for-plagiarism.html">Media Culpa blog post</a> detailing instances where the high-profile columnist supposedly failed to attribute properly became widely circulated.</p>

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