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22 Sep

Johann Hari’s apology: Sincere or self-serving?

<p>British journalist Johann Hari has written a front-page personal apology -- more than two months after he was suspended from<em> The Independent</em> on <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8632979/Johann-Hari-suspended-over-plagiarism-accusations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusations of plagiarism</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/07/27/johann_hari/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fabrication</a>, plus <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100105146/johann-hari-hounded-me-for-years-all-he-gets-is-four-months-unpaid-holiday-from-the-independe

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22 Sep

«La région offre de meilleures opportunités aux débutants»

<p>Par Sophie Mangado pour le bulletin <em><a href="http://www.ajiq.qc.ca/bulletin-independant/">L'Indépendant</a></em> de l'AJIQ</p><p>Il y a bien sûr les charmes de la nature, les journées de travail qui laissent place à la randonnée en kayak sur le fjord saguenéen sans passer par la case métro ou trafic. Indéniables avantages de la région. Mais il y a surtout chez Yves Ouellet un engouement pour son métier de journaliste indépendant qui, après 35 ans, fleure bon la fougue et l'optimisme. Entrevue avec un pigiste comblé, parce qu'insatiable!</p>

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21 Sep

Décès de Louis Falardeau, «la conscience de la profession»

<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Le journaliste Louis Falardeau est décédé lundi à 68 ans. Il a été «un des meilleurs journalistes politiques de sa génération», estime le chroniqueur Yves Boisvert de <em>La Presse</em>, mais aussi un militant de la cause journalistique au Québec.</font></p>

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21 Sep

J-Source’s top 10 j-movies

<p>Hollywood has enjoyed a long romance with journalists and the (US) newsroom; it’s estimated that approximately 2,000 fictional films have been produced in the US with journalists as main and peripheral characters (the earliest may be Delivering Newspapers (Director unknown), produced in 1907. Another 43 followed before the archetype,1931’s The Front Page (dir. Lewis Milestone) introduced a cynical, boozy, gambling, competitive reporters, both too lazy to break out of the pack, and, whose desperate passion for a scoop would see them kill it.

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21 Sep

Milieu hostile: une bourse de formation pour les pigistes

<p>À l'heure où les médias ferment un à un leurs bureaux à l'étranger et se rabattent sur les journalistes indépendants, le Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma lance deux bourses pour permettre aux pigistes de suivre une formation sur les milieux hostiles.</p>

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21 Sep

New fund for freelancers to attend hazardous environment safety training

<p>Canadian freelancers can now receive funds to attend hazardous environment safety training courses in the U.S. or Britain.</p><p>The recently-debuted Forum Freelance Fund, operated by <a href="http://journalismforum.fims.uwo.ca/freelancefund/release.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma</a>, provides bursaries of up to $2,500, with the aim of covering 70 per cent of course and travel costs. Bursary recipients may choose from courses offered by Andrew Kain Enterprises Limited, Centurion Risk Assessment Services Ltd. and Columbia Journalism School.</p>

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21 Sep

The skinny on financial journalism

<p><em>Couldn't make it to the Canadian Journalism Foundation's forum on financial journalism? Catch up by scrolling through <a href="http://live.j-source.ca/Event/CJF_Forum_State_of_Financial_Journalism?Page=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J-Source's liveblog</a> for some juicy and informative quotes, or sit down with </em><em>Students' Lounge editor <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong>'s round-up.</em></p>

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21 Sep

Breaking Rob Ford’s silence

<p><em>It's common knowledge that Toronto mayor Rob Ford won't talk to the </em>Toronto Star<em>. If the new "Free Press and Democracy" motion is passed, however, Ford might not be able to keep mum much longer. </em>J-Source<em>'s new Students' Lounge editor <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> reports on the Ford-</em>Star<em> saga, the new motion, and what it could mean, if passed.</em></p>

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21 Sep

Where are First Nations voices and issues?

<p>A post about UBC’s ‘<a href="http://j-source.ca/article/five-questions-duncan-mccue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reporting in Indigenous Communities</a>’ course had the Big Issue editor combing J-Source for related articles – and finding surprisingly few.

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21 Sep

Ryerson students get a special lesson in investigative reporting

<div>By Carys Mills, Mariana Ionova, Alexandra Bosanac, Liam McGowan, Shaheer Choudhury and Marta Iwanek</div><p>The idea for our story came from a series of articles in Canadian newspapers in 2009. They covered the Ministry of Education's introduction of the "P" notation, which helped flag individual grades from private schools taken by public school students.

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