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5 Jan

Global News re-visits viral video; Rob Leth gets ‘pwned’

<p>Global News has posted an extended version of its 2008 news-story-turned-viral-video.</p><p>Rob Leth was doing a stand-up for a weather story where he was timing an inner-tube toboggan race. It was routine enough — until one of the racers hit him head on. Leth flew into the air, nearly completing a 360 before landing on his back, rolling over, and delivering his sign off.</p>

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5 Jan

Some of the most shocking journalism job interview questions

<p>Journalism.co.uk has collected a list of some of the strangest, most hilarious, and legally questionable questions that people tweeted they had been asked during journalism job interviews.</p><p><a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2012/01/05/what-would-you-do-if-kelvin-mackenzie-called-you-a-c-and-other-memorable-job-interview-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out the Storify they made from the responses</a>.</p>

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5 Jan

There may be no real-life Mikael Blomkvist, but Stieg Larsson can still help journalism: The CJR

<p>In the wake of the release of Hollywood's adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s first novel of the best-selling Millennium trilogy, <em>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo</em>, the <a href="http://www.cjr.org/reports/the_girl_who_loved_journalists.php?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia Journalism Review has taken a look at </a>what the series exposes and accurately highlights about journalism — its fundamentals, struggles, and realities.  As the CJR says:</p>

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5 Jan

Global Maritimes to get new home, new morning news show

<p>Global Maritimes will be getting a new home in Halifax, and a new morning news show this fall.</p><p><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/48741-global-tv-confirms-move-former-palookas-gym" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the <em>Chronicle Herald</em></a>, Global News has purchased the building that was home to Palooka’s Gym on Gottingen St. in Halifax’s north end, and will be moving its television studios there in September from its current location at Burnside Park in Dartmouth.</p>

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4 Jan

A publication with no paywall, no ads and no donor-chasing: A reality in Australia

<p>Imagine a publication that produced public-interest journalism with no paywall, no advertisements and no chasing of donors. Sounds crazy, right?</p><p><em>The Global Mail</em> in Australia will be doing just that.</p>

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4 Jan

What it was like covering stories in Canada’s North: Three Ryerson students reflect

<p><em>Last summer, <strong>Marta Iwanek</strong>,<strong> Ashleigh Gaul </strong>and <strong>Samantha Anderson</strong> financed their own way to cover stories in the North for the Winter 2012 issue of the </em>Ryerson Review of Journalism<em>. Now, they’re reflecting on their time in Canada's north for J-Source. </em></p>

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4 Jan

Bourse AJIQ-Le Devoir 2012

<p>Les journalistes pigistes membres de l'Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec (AJIQ) ont jusqu'au 30 janvier pour soumettre leur candidature pour la <a href="http://www.ajiq.qc.ca/activites/bourse-ajiq-le-devoir.php">bourse AJIQ-<em>Le Devoir</em></a> 2012. À la clef: un stage rémunéré de quatre semaines au <em>Devoir</em>.</p>

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4 Jan

With media standards at issue, make way for “expert” witnesses

<p><em>Will a new libel defence bring business to self-styled experts in media practice? As <strong>Rhiannon Russell </strong>reports, that’s been the case in Quebec, and the rest of Canada may follow suit.</em></p><p> </p><p>John Miller knows journalism. He’s worked as a reporter for decades, held various management positions at the <em>Toronto Star</em>, and was, until retirement, a professor and two-time chair of Ryerson University’s School of Journalism. Now, he testifies as an expert witness in libel cases concerning journalism’s standards of practice.</p>

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4 Jan

Why is the Toronto Star selling ads on a section’s front page?

<p>On Dec 10 and 17, the <em>Toronto Star</em> ran a full-page ad for Mirvish's <em>War Horse</em> on the front page of its entertainment section, to the surprise of some. After all, the <em>Star</em>’s media kit states that its <a href="http://mediakit.thestar.ca/uploads/pdf/TSMK_creative_special.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">creative advertising positioning</a> is available in all sections, but not the front of sections (with the exception of front-page wrap-arounds). </p>

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4 Jan

Canadian coverage of the U.S. primaries and caucuses

<p>Having trouble getting excited about Romney versus Santorum? You’re likely not alone. Judging by <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/romney-closer-to-leading-gop-race/article2290646/comments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these Globe and Mail comments</a>, intense interest in the 2008 Clinton-Obama race has been replaced by a heaping of scorn on the U.S. political process and its wannabes. Reflecting the public mood, Canadian coverage seems more subdued than 2008, although not completely silent.

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