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21 Dec

Iconic Jack Layton shot among CP’s best photos of 2011

<p>News photography brings life to stories that may be otherwise devoid of imagery. It captures moments and feelings, and can articulate them in a way that a print reporter could only dream of.</p>

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21 Dec

Rue89 passe dans le giron du Nouvel Observateur

<p>Créé sans investisseurs ni groupe de presse, <em>Rue89</em> cède 100% de son capital au fondateur et patron du groupe Nouvel Observateur, Claude Perdiel, qui chapeaute également les magazines <em>Challenges</em> et <em>Sciences & Avenir</em>. Après quatre an de lutte, les cofondateurs du site se disent «usés». Ils ont choisi de faire «le deuil d'un rêve entreprenarial».

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21 Dec

How I got the story: Selena Ross on Montreal’s dirty snow removal contracts

<p><em>Selena Ross set out to discover what was behind a number of pedestrians who had been killed by snowplows in Montreal. What she found was a snow removal industry that is entrenched in a culture of collusion, bid-rigging and violence. <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> spoke to Ross to find out how she got the story that has exposed the dirty money behind yet another Montreal industry.</em></p><p> </p>

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21 Dec

Pourquoi ouvre-t-on des dizaines de blogues sur un site privé? Pour vendre de la publicité…

<p><span style="line-height: 0.48cm; ">Par Nadia Seraiocco, texte originellement paru sur son blogue </span><a href="http://www.cheznadia.com/" style="line-height: 0.48cm; ">Chez Nadia</a></p>

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21 Dec

J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year: Nominations open

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/IMG_6637 copy_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p>While other media organizations are naming their news <em>makers</em> of the year, here at J-Source <a href="http://j-source.ca/j-source-canadian-newsperson-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we're looking at the journalists</a> who cover the stories that make a difference and the editors, producers, managers and owners who make sure journalism's best is out there for Canadianss.</p>

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21 Dec

Makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice

<p>Looking back on these<a href="http://worldnews.about.com/od/topstories/tp/Top-10-News-Stories-To-Watch-In-2011.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> top story predictions</a> for 2011, there were some hits and misses. The year held some surprises, with Jack Layton topping cbc.ca’s list of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/13/mostviewed-top-2011.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most-viewed stories</a>.

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21 Dec

Fighting for the soul of journalism amid imposters

<p><em>As journalists, we ask tough questions of our sources. But it turns out we may need to ask such questions of fellow journalists as well. <strong>Stephen Ward</strong> writes about an alarming trend he is seeing south of the border: partisan groups passing off their work as journalism. Partisan journalism simply can’t provide the value that public journalism ideally does. The U.S. cases should serve as a warning to Canadians. Foreword by J-Source Ideas editor and </em>Media<em> magazine editor <strong>David McKie</strong>.</em></p><p> </p>

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21 Dec

#Twitterfight or: How journalists manage their online presence

<p><em>Childish sniping, iffy ethics and the sheer lunacy of public feuds expose the human side of journalists. Is that wrong? <strong>Raeanne Quinton</strong> looked into the emerging trend of newsrooms issuing social media guidelines to reporters for the </em>Ryerson Review of Journalism<em> and recounts some infamous Twitter-battles between Toronto’s Jonathan Goldsbie and Sue Ann Levy.</em></p><p> </p>

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21 Dec

Statscan to make yet more data available at no cost

<p>Updated Dec. 21</p><p>Statistics Canada is going to make more of its data available to the public without charge, though the exact shape of the new free-data policy has yet to emerge.</p>

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20 Dec

Huffington Post Québec: le Voir s’indigne

<p>Le journal <em>Voir</em> n'en finit plus de s'indigner que plusieurs personnalités connues aient accepté de bloguer bénévolement pour le <em>Huffington Post Québec</em> (HPQ). Après la diffusion de deux chroniques coup de gueule de son directeur des nouveaux médias, Simon Jodoin, voilà que l'équipe publie en section «nouvelle» un texte intitulé, «<a href="http://voir.ca/nouvelles/2011/12/20/le-voir-paye-les-blogueurs/">Le Voir paie ses blogueurs</a>».</p>

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