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17 Oct

Don’t name-call guests: CBC ombuds review

<p>CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe has a message for journos in his latest review: Don't call your guest names.</p><p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/2011-10-13-Gangji.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The review</a> was prompted by the October 6 edition of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Lang & O'Leary Exchange</em></a>, which featured an interview with American, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges on the Occupy Wall Street protests.</p>

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17 Oct

Working with WikiLeaks: the rewards and the frustrations

<p><em>J-Source's Investigative Journalism editor <strong>Cecil Rosner</strong> brings us a special dispatch from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev: What it was like for the investigative journalists who worked with Julian Assange, and why one will never do it again.</em></p>

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14 Oct

Occupons Wall Street à la Une

<p>L'économie s'est hissée en tête des préoccupations médiatiques aux États-Unis la semaine dernière, essentiellement en raison de la couverture grandissante du mouvement Occupy Wall Street, selon <a href="http://www.journalism.org/node/26889">les statistiques du Pew Research Center</a>’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Les protestataires n'occupent plus seulement les rues de New York, mais aussi celles de Los Angeles, de Chicago et de Boston, notamment.

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14 Oct

Rulings reject guilty plea ban, sealing order

<p>An Ontario judge has found no grounds for preventing the media from reporting that one of three people accused of murder has pleaded guilty, even though the co-accused will stand trial soon. And another judge of the province’s Superior Court has refused to seal documents filed in a civil case despite a claim they reveal trade secrets.</p>

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14 Oct

CIBL: 30 ans de radio citoyenne

<p>«Ici CIBL Radio-Montréal... pour y rester.» C'est sur ces mots que se termine le livre <a href="http://www.cibl1015.com/livre"><em>CIBL. 30 ans de radio citoyenne</em></a> lancé hier soir dans les locaux de la station dans l'est de Montréal. Avec la complicités des artisans de la station, les auteurs Chloé Sondervorst et Robert Blondin signent «un livre qui s'écoute comme une émission de radio», comme ils le décrivent eux-même très justement.</p>

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13 Oct

Is the newscaster celebrity undermining journalism’s credibility?: Vancouver Sun

<p>What happens when serious journalists moonlight as celebrities? And what does it mean for the industry's credibility? These questions are at the heart of a recent Postmedia feature by Misty Harris <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Newscasters+celebrity+undermining+journalism+credibility/5539303/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published in the <em>Vancouver Sun</em></a>.<br /><br />The crossover trend between serious journalism and superficial entertainment, she writes, is nothing new, but it is more blatant than ever before.<br />

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13 Oct

U of T launches new post-graduate journalism program

<p>A new and different post-graduate journalism program has just been launched at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.</p><p><a href="http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/journalism/">The program’s website </a> states that it is seeking 10 people who have some expertise in a subject and want to provide coverage of that subject in the global media.</p>

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13 Oct

Assistant/Associate Professor, Communication Program at UOIT

<p><strong>Faculty of Social Science and Humanities - Assistant/Associate Professor - UOIT 11-129</strong></p><p><strong>Competition No.: UOIT11-129</strong></p><p><strong>Posting Date: October 12, 2011</strong></p><p><strong>Closing Date: December 16, 2011</strong></p><p><strong>Position Title:</strong><strong>Assistant/Associate Professor, Communication Program</strong></p><p><strong>Faculty or Department:</strong><strong>Faculty of Social Science & Humanities</strong></p>

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13 Oct

Crime reporting in the age of victim’s rights: interview with Carrie Rentschler

<p>In <strong>Second Wounds</strong>, media scholar Carrie Rentschler traces the emergence of victim advocacy in the U.S. from the sixties until the present.  Rentschler also explores the relationship the victim’s rights movement and the media, describing how U.S.

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13 Oct

BC Business does lunch with Patricia Graham

<p><a href="http://www.bcbusiness.ca/people/lunch-with-patricia-graham" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>BC Business</em></a> writer Lucy Hyslop recently sat down with <em>Vancouver Sun</em> editor Patricia Graham to discuss the challenges of bringing newspapers into the digital age.<br /><br />It's worth reading for insight into the Postmedia chain's best digital property, as Graham terms it, plus where Graham plans to take the <em>Sun</em> in the coming years. Hint: it will involve thinking of new ways to increase revenue.<br />

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