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6 Feb

Virage numérique au Journal de Montréal

<p><font color="#000000">Depuis une semaine, le <em>Journal de Montréal </em>et son homologue de la capitale, le <em>Journal de Québec</em>, ont un nouveau visage sur Internet. La présidente et éditrice du <em>JdeM</em>, Lyne Robitaille, estime mettre sur le marché rien de moins qu'«un site qui redéfinit la norme pour transmettre l'information sur Internet».

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6 Feb

Good reads: License plate recognition technology and your privacy

<p>If you’ve ever attended court to get legal custody of your child, had a mental health problem attended to by police, or been accused of breaking a municipal bylaw, you have something in common with car thieves and child kidnappers in Victoria B.C.: Information about you that Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) and the RCMP collects is stored in a giant database for two or more years – just in case.</p>

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6 Feb

CRTC postpones CBC license renewal hearings again, this time ‘until further notice’

<p>In light of the upcoming federal budget, <a href="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-379-2.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the CRTC has postponed</a> hearings surrounding <a href="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-379.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBC’s license renewal</a> until further notice.</p>

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6 Feb

Five questions for Calgary Herald’s digital engagement editor Tom Babin

<p><em>The </em>Calgary Herald<em> is creating a giant Rolodex for its newsroom with its new <a href="http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/01/31/be-a-source-for-the-calgary-herald-and-help-make-our-journalism-better/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Be a Source</a> program. We asked digital engagement editor <strong>Tom Babin</strong> to tell us about the new program (launched last week) that turns its readers into sources and how it can help journalists.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p>

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4 Feb

Hacker-assisted reporting: can it be ethical?

<p><em>If you hear the word ‘hacker’ and all you can think is </em>News of the World<em> scandal, stop cringing. <strong>Cecil Rosner </strong>explains how working with hackers who mine for publicly available data can be beneficial to not-so-tech-savvy journalists.</em></p><p> </p><p>I have taken the controversial step of mentioning the words “hacking,” “reporting” and “ethical” all in the same sentence. Now I’ll need the rest of this post to convince you I haven’t lost all vestiges of integrity.</p>

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4 Feb

Hacker-assisted reporting: can it be ethical?

<p>I have taken the controversial step of mentioning the words “hacking,” “reporting” and “ethical” all in the same sentence. Now I’ll need the rest of this post to convince you I haven’t lost all vestiges of integrity.</p>

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3 Feb

Michelle Siu wins Tom Hanson photojournalism award

<p style="background:white"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/6802090125_52e60279e4_z (1).jpg" title="" /></p>

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3 Feb

Ezra Levant takes on Jennifer Ditchburn over new Canadians story

<p>While Quebecor declined to comment in a story yesterday that stated federal bureaucrats had posed as “new Canadians” during a reaffirmation ceremony broadcast by its own Sun TV, it was only a matter of time before someone at the news organization spoke up.</p>

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2 Feb

Journalism and Communication Rights In Canada: An Interview With Jeremy Shtern

<p>Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern’s collection <strong>Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada</strong> is a series of essays by Canadian media and communications scholars on the past, present and future of Canadian communication rights.

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2 Feb

Journalism and Communication Rights In Canada: An Interview With Jeremy Shtern

<p> </p><p><em>Lisa Lynch interviews Media Divides co-author Jeremy Shtern about Canadian communication policy, the right to communicate, and the role of journalists in asserting their (and our) communication rights.</em></p>

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