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2 Aug

#NBCfail, Guy Adams and Twitter’s response

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2 Aug

His Girl Friday: Adapting journalistic issues of the 1930s for 2012

<p>With public opinion polls showing that the public’s estimation of journalists is at an all-time low and our ethical practices are being aired like dirty laundry again with this week’s expose of Jonah Leher’s quote fabrications you could imagine that a comedy about journalism would be simple: just turn all this negativity on its ear and depict journalists as squeaky clean, virtuous, truth-seeking heroes who pursue stories to upend evil and renew the public’s faith in democracy. Comedy is all about inverting our beliefs to see how they look upside down.</p>

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1 Aug

Who, what, where and when: How journalists miss the ‘why’ in mental health stories

<p><strong>By Chelsey Burnside</strong></p><p> </p><p>My dad’s voice is guttural as it slices through the Bluetooth static. “We want to tell you before you see the headlines,” he says.</p>

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1 Aug

Why Saskatchewan is a good place to be a journalist

<p>“Book your ticket out west,” says CBC Saskatchewan television and radio reporter Devin Heroux. “Come to the Prairies!”</p><p>Heroux isn’t promoting the Saskatchewan Roughriders or the province’s summer events like Craven Country Jamboree — he’s talking to all the journalists out there.</p><p>The job possibilities for journalists aren’t as bad as they’ve been made out to be —  at least not in Saskatchewan. The economy is booming, advertising dollars are flowing and new outlets are popping up like spring flowers.</p>

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1 Aug

J-Links for Aug. 1: Ballast reaches fundraising goal; HuffPo Quebec on its election coverage; Corus joins media giant ad alliance

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ballast/ballast" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Ballast</em> reaches fundraising goal</a></p><p><em>Ballast</em> wants to be Canada’s Gawker, or The Dish, or whatever it is that will provide an “eccentric yet considered approach” to the happenings of the day. And it looks like it will get the chance. The start-up publication, which will be edited by Paul Hiebert and Jonathan Hall, reached its fundraising goal on Kickstarter today.  </p>

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31 Jul

Fellowship open for journalists who cover international peace and security

<p> </p><p>The <a href="http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/jennings-randolph-senior-fellowship-program/senior-fellowship-application-informa#Fellowship_Activities">United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship</a> is open to journalists whose work covers topics of international peace and security challenges who wish to spend time researching and writing at the institute in Washington D.C.</p>

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31 Jul

The Huffington Post’s Canadian ambitions

<p><strong>By Jonathan Sas, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/07/30/Huffington-Post-Ambitions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tyee</a></strong></p>

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31 Jul

Élections : le « fact-checking » au service des citoyens?

<p>Par Colette Brin<em>, originellement paru sur le blogue <a href="http://www.blogues.ulaval.ca/colette-brin/elections-le-fact-checking-au-service-des-citoyens/">Contact</a> de l'Université Laval</em></p>

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31 Jul

J-Links for July 31: B.C. reporter faces possible charges; Farewell to Winnipeg Free Press’ editor; Jonah Lehrer resigns from The New Yorker

<p> </p><p><strong>In Canadian media:</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/news/story.html?id=7009301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reporter may face charges after exposing alleged drug dealing</a></p>

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30 Jul

Alternative Media in Canada: An Interview With David Skinner

<p><strong>Alternative Media in Canada, </strong>a new collection edited by Kirsten Kozolanka, Patricia Mazepa, and David Skinner, fills a substantial gap in Canadian media research: it is the first collection to provide an overview of Canadian alternative media practices.  The assembled chapters discuss a wide range of media forms — including public service broadcasting, community radio, feminist periodical, and anarchist zines — while also considering the necessary conditions for the survival of alternative and independent voices in the Canadian mediascape.  <em>Researc

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