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19 Dec

A different kind of j-school: Teaching journalism to specialists, rather than the other way around

<p><em>You can't cultivate strong specialty journalism by using a general j-school curriculum. Rather, you must teach the specialists the art of journalism. The University of Toronto's new certificate program looks to do just that.

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19 Dec

Toronto Star invites you to second-guess its editors in its ‘You be the editor’ survey

<p><em>Toronto Star</em> public editor Kathy English has put the call out to readers, asking for their opinions in the paper’s annual “<a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/public_editor/2011/12/16/english_you_be_the_editor.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You be the editor</a>” survey.</p>

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16 Dec

Huffington Post Québec: 8 blogueurs confirmés

<p>L'éditeur et rédacteur en chef du <em>Huffington Post Québec</em> n'est pas encore en poste que déjà une équipe de blogueurs l'attend. Patrick White pourra notamment compter sur le député de Québec Solidaire, Amir Khadir, et le cofondateur et porte-parole d'Équiterre, Steven Guilbault, a appris <em>ProjetJ</em>.</p>

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16 Dec

New online resource for journalists covering health-related issues

<p>There is a new online resource for journalists in Canada covering health-related issues.</p><p><a href="http://www.evidencenetwork.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EvidenceNetwork.ca</a> links journalists with health-policy experts to provide credible information on the issues that they're reporting on.</p>

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15 Dec

Joël Goulet quitte TVA pour la Ville de Terrebonne

<p>Le journaliste Joël Goulet quitte la profession. Affecté aux affaires judiciaires au réseau TVA depuis plusieurs années, il sera coordonnateur aux affaires publiques et sociales à la Direction générale de la Ville de Terrebonne en banlieue nord-est de Montréal, à compter du 3 janvier.</p>

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15 Dec

The top 10 tweets that were Storified this year

<p>Storify is an aggregating tool that is still relatively new; its role in digital storytelling still evolving. But it still helped  tell many important stories in 2011. </p><p>The company has compiled the top 10 tweets used in Storify this year -- and they all speak to stories that dominated headlines in traditional media. From the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, to Steve Jobs' death, to Occupy.</p>

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15 Dec

Ottawa: Where local reporters face federal roadblocks

<p><em>What is it like covering local news in a city that is home to the federal government? It's no walk in the park, as <strong>Holly Gordon</strong> explains.</em></p>

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15 Dec

What was the error of the year? Live chat today on Poynter

<p>Poynter will be <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/156117/live-chat-today-what-was-the-journalism-error-of-the-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosting a live chat</a> today at 2 p.m. EST to find out what you think this year’s journalism error of the year was.</p><p>The chat will be hosted by Reuters’ Jack Schafer and Craig Silverman, who writes an annual best-of (or worst-of, depending on how you look at it) errors and corrections for his website, <a href="http://www.regrettheerror.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Regret the Error</a>. </p>

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15 Dec

‘The Elements of Style’ is transformed into a rap video by j-students

<p>Students at the Columbia School of Journalism have created a <a href="http://vimeo.com/33410512" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rap video</a> explaining required reading, "The Elements of Style." It was an attempt to “do for journalism nerds what the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keynes vs.

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14 Dec

La loi sur l’accès à l’information à l’heure du bilan

<p>En 2012, la Loi sur l'accès aux documents des organismes publics et sur la protection des renseignements personnels, sommairement appelée la Loi sur l'accès à l'information, aura 30 ans.

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