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13 Sep

Photojournalisme: l’avenir repose sur l’intégrité

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">«Le photojournalisme vit un changement profond et nous n'en avons pas encore compris la portée, mais une chose est sûre, notre avenir dépend de l'intégrité». C'est ce qu'a expliqué hier soir le secrétaire du World Press Photo 2010 et directeur général de l'agence VII devant un parterre d'étudiants et de passionnés de photographie au Collège Dawson.

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13 Sep

Masthead releases Top 50 list

<p><em>Masthead</em>'s top 50 magazines list is full of good news. Indeed, the list, which is based on revenue from ad sales and circulation, shows a 2010 recovery for most magazines.</p><p>As a group, shelter and fashion titles rebounded the most, going up an average 29.7 per cent in revenue.</p>

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13 Sep

From the ground up: Building the SUN News Network

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/IMG00020-20110826-1706_0.jpg" title="" /><em><strong>Dayna Gourley </strong>has worked in television news for over 15 years, but helping to launch the Sun News Network could be the biggest challenge she's ever faced.</em></p>

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13 Sep

Media and the hard truth about suicides

<p><em>No one likes covering a suicide. The publicity may add pain at a time of grieving, and can, experts fear, push other suicidal people over the age. But for <strong>Stephen J. A. Ward</strong>, the question is how -- not whether -- painful facts should be reported.</em><br /><br />Recent suicides and deaths of former NHL enforcers have stirred up debate about the NHL’s support system for hockey players during their career – and after they retire.<br /><br />The deaths have also raised, once again, the question of how news media cover the deaths of public figures.<br />

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13 Sep

Ruling relaxes libel rules for political bloggers

<p>An Ontario judge has tossed a libel action against three political bloggers, arguing that web-based political discussions are forums for “the parry and thrust” of vigorous debate and participants whose reputations have been attacked should fight back with words, not legal action.</p>

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12 Sep

TVA Sports: «Bonsoir, elle est partie»

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Les amateurs de sports du Québec pourront désormais syntoniser une nouvelle chaîne de télévision francophone. TVA Sports commencera à émettre dès 17h. Dès demain, le mythique Rodger Brulotte pourra prononcer sa célèbre phrase "Bonsoir, elle est partie" en commentant</font><span class="st"> les matchs des Blue Jays de Toronto</span><font color="#000000">. Mais aujourd'hui, </font><font color="#000000">c'est une femme qui lancera la première balle.</font></p>

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12 Sep

Western j-grad program wins award for “A Good Death” series

<p>The University of Western Ontario journalism graduate program, in partnership with the CBC, is the winner of the 2011 Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Media Award.</p><p>The award honours journalists and/or media organizations for excellent coverage of issues related to hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care in Canada.</p>

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12 Sep

Les outils numériques: l’agrégateur de flux RSS

<p>Par Michel Dumais</p><p>Il est surprenant de constater le peu d’importance qu’accordent de nombreux professionnels de l’information aux outils numériques. Pourtant, bien utilisés, ces outils peuvent grandement faciliter la vie de leur utilisateur et l’assister dans la pratique de son métier.</p>

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12 Sep

Western CanWest Journalism Fellows announced

<p>Two new Canwest Journalism Fellows have been announced for the University of Western Ontario's journalism graduate program 2011/12 school year.<br /><br />Former CBC National radio news and current affairs senior producer Thomas Rose will join the school first. Rose's academic research centres on journalism and human rights, including the history of media development projects in West Africa. He will teach the course "Journalism, human rights, and international development" for the Masters program.<br />

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12 Sep

Is TV news in Canada worth a damn? Two former journos discuss on The Mark

<p>As Tim Knight puts it on <em>The Mark</em>, he and Kai Nagata have some differences: "We're separated by 50 years and 2,000 miles." But also similarities: Both are former TV journalists who believe the industry is mortally ailing -- and both have recently penned widely read missives on why; <a href="http://kainagata.com/2011/07/08/why-i-quit-my-job/">Nagata on his blog</a>, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/day-i-finally-lost-all-respect-national">Knight on <em>J-Source</em></a>. One believes the industry can be saved; the other does not.

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