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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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4 Oct

Unnecessary journalism phrases

<p>Estimated at about. Evolve over time. Of existence. Completely destroyed. Due to the fact that. Introduced a new.<br /><br />We could go on. So can Josh Sternberg, a communications firm owner and <em>Huffington Post</em>, <em>Mashable</em> guest writer.<br /><br />Sternberg created the blog <a href="http://unnecessaryjournalismphrases.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Unnecessary Journalism Phrases</em></a> in September, and is steadily filling it with all sorts of journalism writing faux pas -- and examples from the worst offenders.<br />

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4 Oct

A new fellowship for foreign reporting

<p>It's a unique opportunity for any Canadian journalist or graduate student who wants to pursue a significant foreign story and needs the money to do it.</p>

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4 Oct

Journalism in the age of data: video

<p>Whether you have no idea what data visualization is, how it can be used a storytelling medium, or already love it and want to learn more, <a href="http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/#.TnhTLKSo-kQ.twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">check out this video</a> produced during the 2009/10 Knight Journalism Fellowship. And if you've already seen it, it's worth a refresher.</p>

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4 Oct

Building an online community, Economist-style

<p><em>The Economist</em> has nearly 1.2 million Twitter followers, and more than 800,000 Facebook fans. How do you build a community like that? Well, tweeting about what you had for lunch probably won't do it. Challenging and engaging your online readers, however, will, says <em>The Economist</em>'s community editor Mark Johnson in a recent Q&A posted on <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/2011/09/30/the-economists-mark-johnson-ask-for-a-lot-from-your-community-and-youll-get-a-lot-in-retu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>editorsweblog.org</em></a>.</p>

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4 Oct

New programs, faces at CTV News

<p>CTV News is premiering three programs and adding some new faces -- all this week.</p><p>Amanda Blitz, Rudyard Griffiths, Tasha Kheiriddin and Scott Reid will all join as anchors. The network, after all, will need the extra staff: it is moving toward a two-anchor format for much of the day, allowing, it says, for a more conversational approach to delivering the news.</p><p>The three programs, according to the release, include:</p><p><strong>Express</strong> -- A daytime, weekday program in the conversational format. One-minute news updates broadcast every 15 minutes.</p>

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3 Oct

L’UdeM lorgne les études supérieures en journalisme

<p>Par Hugo Prévost, <a href="http://www.pieuvre.ca/">pieuvre.ca</a></p>

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30 Sep

Want to know how the transphobic ad made it into the National Post?

<p>So does the <em>Post</em>. Advertising manager Enzo Loschiavo <a href="http://openfile.ca/toronto/blog/curator-blog/curated-news/2011/update-post-apologizes-still-investigating-how-transphobic-ad-go" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told <em>OpenFile</em></a> "I'll be honest, no one saw it." Meaning, none of the checks the <em>Post</em> runs before printing an ad caught the widely-panned Institute for Canadian Values ad.<br />

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30 Sep

Dale Bass: What is Canada’s definition of a journalist?

<p>Although it can seem like it, not everybody is against the idea of creating a professional title for journalists.</p><p><em>Kamloops This Week</em> reporter and Canadian Association of Journalists chair Dale Bass has been in favour of professionalization for a long time, and she has written a thought-provoking column in her paper explaining why. While Bass doesn't believe the government should be the ones to regulate it -- as was recently proposed in Quebec -- she does think journalists should be doing it themselves.</p><p>She writes:</p>

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30 Sep

The Globe on Postmedia’s digital switch

<p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> has published an <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-glitch-in-postmedias-digital-switch/article2185559/page1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in-depth article</a> on Postmedia's efforts to go digital dubbed "The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch."<br />

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