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31 Oct

Deux Québécois remportent une bourse pour journaliste en milieu hostile

<p>Les deux bourses inaugurales de formation du Forum Freelance Fund visant à former des journalistes indépendants exerçant en zones de conflit ont été attribuées à deux Québécois: Frédérick Lavoie et Simon Coutu.</p>

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31 Oct

Two two-year appointments, UWO

<p>Journalism – 2 Limited-Term (two-year) Appointments<br />Faculty of Information and Media Studies, the University of Western Ontario  <br />Deadline for application – January 2, 2012<br />

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31 Oct

HuffPo Canada goes zombie for Halloween

<p>Huffington Post Canada <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/culture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been taken over by zombies</a>. Head on over to the (elaborately) Halloween-themed page for articles that include <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/track-of-the-day-brains-b_n_1066380.html">BRRAAAAIIIINSSSSSSSSSSSSS</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grararammmm/zombie-is-not-a-choice_b_1066423.html?ref=culture">Zombie Is Not A Choice</a>.

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31 Oct

Rosie DiManno on the “digital dross”

<p>Increasingly, print doesn’t matter anymore, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/10/30/dimanno_the_tactile_experience_of_newspapers_sacrificed_for_digital_dross.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes <em>Toronto Star</em> columnist Rosie DiManno</a> – and that’s a bad thing.</p><p>“It’s verging,” she adds, “on relic reportage.”  All this digital, multi-platform focus, says DiManno, only does one thing: distracts from the one thing that should matter to print journalism – the words.</p>

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31 Oct

Help for Freelancers in Line of Fire

<p>Two young Canadian journalists working freelance in some of the world's most dangerous regions will benefit from the first safety training bursaries offered by the Forum Freelance Fund.  Simon Coutu of Montréal, who frequently works in the Middle East, and Moscow-based Frédérick Lavoie were chosen by an independent jury.  The Forum Freelance Fund is a new initiative of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.  Coutu will attend a special course for freelancers on reporting in crisis zones at Columbia Journalism School.  Lavoie is to choose between hostil

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31 Oct

Les journalistes indépendants sont-ils mieux protégés en France?

<p>Par Audrey Desrochers – texte originellement paru dans le bulletin <a href="http://www.ajiq.qc.ca/bulletin-independant/"><em>L'Indépendant</em></a> de l'AJIQ</p>

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30 Oct

Debate over licensing journalists in Toronto, Nov 5

<p>Certifiable?<br />A Debate over Licensing Journalists<br /> <br />Should journalists be licensed by a regulatory body?  Who would separate the pros from the joes? Are citizen journalists second class? Do Canadians care?<br /><br />The debate over accreditation of journalists is heating up in Quebec and the U.K. with government calls for action -- and surprising support from some journalists -- for the notion of professional regulation.<br /> 

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30 Oct

Briarpatch launches writing contest

<p>Briarpatch is pleased to announce our first annual creative writing contest! We are now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction (memoir, personal essay, literary journalism). With award-winning author Lee Maracle as our judge and $600 in cash prizes to give away, this opportunity is not to be missed! The deadline for entry is December 1, 2011. For full contest details check out <a href="http://briarpatchmagazine.com/">briarpatchmagazine.com</a></p>

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30 Oct

Piercing youth court ‘shroud’ of secrecy

<p>A <em>Toronto</em> Star investigation into the city’s busy youth court met with resistance from judges and prosecutors, arbitrary publication bans and attempts to block access to the basic records the media needs to cover the justice system. In the words of reporter David Bruser, the paper had to fight to lift the “institutional shroud covering the often-disturbing details of youth crimes from public view.”Read the Star’s Oct.

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29 Oct

Report that paywall for two Postmedia newspapers attracting paid readers; Godfrey plans to add more newspapers

<p>A report in <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/postmedia-plans-to-charge-for-online-articles/article2218147/">today's Globe and Mail </a>says Postmedia is planning to ask more readers to pay for content.  Paul Godfrey, CEO, says the experiments in Montreal and Victoria mean “the numbers [of paid readers] are growing. They’re growing slowly, but they’re going in the right direction... (U)ltimately, it will be across the chain.”</p>

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