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23 Nov

Court rules CBC must hand over documents to information commissioner

<p>The Federal Court of Appeal has <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/11/23/cbc_loses_information_battle_in_court.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled that the CBC must hand over</a> all the documents at the centre of the broadcaster’s access-to-information dispute to Canada’s information commissioner, Suzanne Legault. The CBC had tried to block the commissioner from seeing the documents after she received a complaint from the requestors. She will review whether the broadcaster has properly applied exemptions under federal access to information laws.</p>

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23 Nov

How I got the story in Syria: one journalist goes undercover

<p><em>Calgary freelance journalist Jeremy Kroeker snuck into Syria, hid his true identity, and lived as a tourist for three weeks. <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> talks to Kroeker about life undercover, being held by police, and getting the story in a place where it’s too dangerous for foreign reporters to use bylines. </em></p>

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23 Nov

Getting the story wrong

<p><em><strong>Hayden Kenez </strong>tuned in to NewsTalk 1010 last week only to hear Christie Blatchford tell the world he called her a douchebag. How one student journalist learned the hard way how damaging the media can be when they get the story wrong. </em></p>

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23 Nov

She said, he said: two accounts of editorial independence in a B.C. community newspaper

<p><em>The publishers of community newspapers are often accused of giving in to advertisers' pressure on editorial content. According to <strong>Micah Luxen</strong>, the </em>Kelowna Daily Courier<em> and its </em>Westside Weekly<em> supplement are cases in point. After quitting her job as the </em>Weekly<em>'s editor last summer, Luxen sent </em>J-Source<em> her account of interactions with ad representatives and with her boss, </em>Courier<em> managing editor <strong>Jon Manchester</strong>.

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23 Nov

Titre professionnel: «On ne peut pas renoncer pour de si mauvaises raisons», Dominique Payette

<p>La création d'un titre de journaliste professionnel (JP) est plus que jamais compromise. L'escale montréalaise de la tournée de consultation publique de la ministre Christine St-Pierre sur l'avenir de l'information a montré un milieu journalistique déchiré sur les modalités de gestion de ce statut. Si bien que la FPJQ est désormais prête à rejeter le titre de JP qu'elle appelle pourtant de ces vœux depuis longtemps.

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23 Nov

Five questions for Huffington Post Canada’s Daniel Tencer

<p><em>We talk to <strong>Daniel Tencer</strong>, business editor at </em>Huffington Post Canada<em> about the site’s first major investigative project, Mind the Gap, why they’re not piggybacking the Occupy movement, and what we can expect from HuffPo Canada in the future. </em></p><p><strong>J-Source: A lot of the issues that the Mind the Gap series is focusing on are similar to those that the Occupy protestors have been talking about. Tell me a little bit more about how the series came about. What inspired you to start this series now?</strong></p>

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23 Nov

Syria calling

<p>On Saturday, a Syrian camera operator was<a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/syrian-cameraman-mutilated-and-killed-following-arrest-/s2/a546824/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> found dead</a> with his eyes gouged out, the first death in an ongoing battle between journalists and the Syrian regime.

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23 Nov

New hires at Global News

<p>Global News <a href="http://www.shawmedia.ca/media/media.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has added a few new names</a> to the editorial team at Global National.</p><p>Doriana Temolo has been appointed news director, a newly created role for the newscast. As news director, the original Global National staff member will lead all aspects of the newscast. She has spent the past five years as its managing editor.</p><p>Global has also hired Michael Hennigar, a former CBC reporter and producer, as its new senior producer. Doug Sydora will take Temolo’s place as managing editor.</p>

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23 Nov

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada offers three $10,000 media fellowships

<p>The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada has been doling out media fellowships since 1986. In that time, the organization has granted 96 Canadian journalists the opportunity to explore a part of the world that is only growing in dominance, importance, and public interest.</p>

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23 Nov

A reluctant farewell from OpenFile Hamilton

<p>After close to a year in operation, <em>OpenFile Hamilton</em> is calling it quits.</p><p>Company CEO Wilf Dinnick made the announcement late last week in an <a href="http://hamilton.openfile.ca/blog/news/2011/reluctant-farewell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> posted to the site. While the site will remain online, with all existing content, its last day of publication was Sunday.</p><p>Dinnick writes:</p>

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