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5 Oct

Do young writers care if they get paid?

<p><em>Sarah Millar responds to Russell Smith's </em>Globe and Mail<em> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/why-dont-creative-young-writers-care-if-they-get-paid/article1361281/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a>, where he laments that young writers, unlike senior writers, don’t care if they get paid for their work. This post originally appeared on her blog, </em><a href="http://sarahmillar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Through the Looking Glass</a><em>.</em></p><p>"Why don’t creative young writers care if they get paid?"</p>

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5 Oct

The Rights Check-up: first edition podcast

<p><em>A group of <a href="http://jhrconcordia.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concordia journalism</a> students delve into the role social media and journalism can play in preventing mass atrocities and genocide in the premier edition of this Journalists for Human Rights "Rights Check-up" podcast. Run time is just under one hour. This podcast was originally broadcast on <a href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/journalists-human-rights/2011/10/jhr-rights-check-1-human-rights-and-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rabble.ca </a></em></p><p> </p>

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5 Oct

The law and ethics of investigative journalism

<p>TORONTO//By Kimberley Noble -- For much of the past year, Osgoode law professor Jamie Cameron has been delving into the history, nature and implications of the controversial confidential newsgathering processes that have recently put journalists into, rather than behind, the headlines.</p><p>Cameron’s passion was ignited last year when she represented the <a href="http://ccla.org/">Canadian Civil Liberties Association</a> in the National Post and Globe and Mail court cases defending journalists’ legal right to protect confidential sources.</p>

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5 Oct

(Un)Lawful access: wiring Canada’s networks for control

<p><em>Carleton University's <strong>Dwayne Winseck</strong> opines about three issues in the federal government's hands that he argues will influence an independent free media: the copyright act; the process to choose a new CRTC head; and, the 'lawful-access' legislation.This article originally appeared on Winseck's blog, <a href="http://dwmw.wordpress.com/">Mediamorphis</a>.</em></p>

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5 Oct

Bringing the ha! to Hogtown

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/onionpartyshot.jpg" title="" />J-Source<em>’s <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> caught up with </em>The Onion<em>’s features editor Joe Garden, in town for the satirical paper’s Toronto launch, to chat about Canada, what makes it funny, and what’s in store for the Canuck edition.</em><br /><br />Torontonians – your weekly reads just got a whole lot funnier.<br />

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5 Oct

Foreign reporting: A glamorous job?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/forum picture jsource.jpg" title="" /><em><strong>Maria Assaf</strong> listens in as four CBC foreign correspondents demystify the challenges of foreign reporting. Anna-Maria Tremonti, Adrienne Arsenault, Peter Armstong, and cameraman Mike Heenan talk straight at the network's recent open house panel about reporting in war zones and foreign countries where nothing, it sometimes seems, is ever easy.</em></p>

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5 Oct

Police investigations cast net over media footage

<p>Vancouver police are <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/vancouver-police-serve-media-warrants-demand-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving warrants</a> to collect hockey riot footage from media outlets. British media recently faced <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/british-media-give-riot-footage-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the same dilemma</a> in the wake of the London riots.

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4 Oct

Six former journalists now running for office discuss the switch with Steve Paikin

<p>They've left their jobs as TV anchors or hosts - at least during the Ontario election campaign to stand on the other side of the microphone.</p><p><a href="http://theagenda.ww3.tvo.org/episode/124946/once-journalists-now-politicians">TVO's Steve Paikin </a>brought six provincial candidates together for a compelling discussion about the switch from journalism to politics, two days before they find out if their next assignment is Queen's Park.</p>

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4 Oct

City TV launches all-news TV channel in Toronto

<p>Toronto's latest all-news TV channel is now on the air and if you're a Rogers subscriber in Toronto you can't miss it as it pops up on channel 'one' when you turn on your cable box.</p>

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4 Oct

Lapierre contre Sormany: l’aveuglement 2.0

<p>Le directeur des émissions d'affaires publiques de la Télévision de Radio-Canada, Pierre Sormany, est en train de payer cher une indiscrétion 2.0. La direction de Radio-Canada a émis hier en fin de journée un <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/fr/releases/archive/October2011/03/c8987.html">communiqué</a> annonçant l'avoir suspendu dès vendredi, après que le chroniqueur politique du Groupe TVA et de Cogeco, Jean Lapierre, ait déposé une poursuit en diffamation contre lui pour des propos tenus sur Facebook.</p>

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