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31 Aug

Lloyd Robertson’s last day

<p>"I can scarce believe it's finally happening," writes Lloyd Robertson in an <a _cke_saved_href="http://www.ctv.ca/lloyd/" href="http://www.ctv.ca/lloyd/">open letter posted to CTV's website</a>.

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31 Aug

Teaching journalism in an age when news comes to you

<p><em>Centennial College journalist in residence <strong>Lynne Russell</strong> examines the difficulties of teaching the latest crop of j-students -- many of whom believe their smart phones hold the keys to truth. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/08/teaching-journalism-in-an-age-when-news-comes-to-you234">This article originally appeared on PBS MediaShift</a>.</em></p>

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31 Aug

The perils of B.C.’s new FOI policy

<p><em>British Columbia's recent freedom-of-information policy change may look good on the surface, but dig a little deeper, writes <strong>Sean Holman</strong>, and it's nothing but bad news. The editor of <a href="http://www.publiceyeonline.com/">Public Eye</a>, a popular website covering B.C. politics, tells us why.</em></p>

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31 Aug

The end of silly season

<p><em>While most of us lament the end of summer, writes <strong>Lisa Taylor</strong>, there is one thing to cheer: the end of silly season in news. An examination of how endless sunny days + slow news + journalist = lapse in critical thinking.</em></p>

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31 Aug

Somalia ignored as crisis mounts

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Somalia famine UNHCR photo.jpg" style="width: 197px; height: 131px;" title="" /></p>

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30 Aug

Focusing on Jack Layton: How working in smaller markets prepared one reporter to cover one of the biggest stories of the year

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">CBC Videographer Charlsie Agro was called up from Windsor to work in Toronto this summer. Little did she know she'd end up covering one of the biggest stories of the year, the death of NDP leader Jack Layton. What did Agro learn? Market size doesn't matter when it comes to the essential skills of journalism.</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">“What’s the story? What’s the story?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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30 Aug

WikiLeaks calls NYT drooling, senile and evil

<p>WikiLeaks and <em>The New York Times</em> are perhaps offically no longer BFFs.<br /><br />In the past week, WikiLeaks has released more than 125,000 leaked diplomatic cables. Unlike earlier releases, however, WikiLeaks did not partner with any traditional media this time around.<br />

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30 Aug

Guerre des hebdos: Quebecor attaque en Mauricie

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Au lendemain de l'annonce de l'acquisition de deux hebdomadaires par Transcontinental dans l'Est du Québec, Quebecor riposte. Sa filiale Sun Media annonce le lancement de deux nouveaux hebdomadaires en Mauricie:<em> L'Écho de Trois-Rivières</em> et <em>L'Écho de Shawinigan</em>. Ils seront distribués dès demain à 101 000 foyers</font><font color="#000000">.</font></p>

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30 Aug

CTV Ottawa hits the road

<p>CTV Ottawa's <em>News at Six</em> is ready to hit the road. The team will deliver its dinner hour newscast live at five locations across Eastern Ontario during the week of September 12th.<br /><br />And, yes, the whole show will be done on location, with four anchors -- including Graham Richardson and Carol Anne Meehan, but also weather caster J.J Clarke and sports director Terry Marcotte -- running the show.<br />

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30 Aug

The lede desk: curbing the cliché

<p>Back in the 1990s, Pulitzer Prize winning journo Steve Twomey circulated a memorandum at the <em>San Jose Mercury News</em> from the fictional "Lede Desk". In it: Thirteen rules for curbing the cliché in lede writing.<br /><br />You can check out the <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/degrees-of-freedom/2011/08/30/the-lede-desk-fighting-the-scourge-of-boring-writing/">full, and hilariously-written, list</a> on the <em>Scientific American</em> website, which has reprinted the memo with Twomey's permission, but here are a couple of samples:<br />

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