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30 Aug

Can authors survive if the printed book dies?

<p>The Guardian has an excellently-reasoned (if not extremely depressing) <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/22/are-books-dead-ewan-morrison">article about the end of books and writers</a> on its website right now -- and if you haven't read it yet, you should.<br /><br />The article is a shortened version of <a href="http://ewanmorrison.com/">Ewan Morrison</a>'s argument made recently at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that the publishing industry is in fatal decline. After reading the article, it's hard to disagree.<br />

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29 Aug

Hebdos: Transcontinental s’étend dans l’Est du Québec

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Médias Transcontinental étend sa toile dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent et en Gaspésie en acquérant la majorité des actifs de l'entreprise Avantage Consommateurs de l'Est du Québec. Cette transaction comprend les deux hebdomadaires, <em>L'Avantage votre journal</em> et <em>L'Avantage gaspésien</em>, le mensuel <em>Le Régional</em>, ainsi que le portail d'information régionale lavantage.qc.ca.</font></p>

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29 Aug

Licensing journalists? Blame it on the CBC: Ezra Levant

<p>The to-license-or-not-to-license debate is one of the most heated conversations in Canada's journalism world. Part of the anti-license faction? Well, according to Sun Media's Ezra Levant, you can point three fingers of blame: one at Quebec Minister of Culture and Communications Christine St-Pierre, one at report writer Dominique Payette, and one at the CBC.</p><p>Yes, the CBC.</p>

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29 Aug

Wordstock 2011 cancelled

<p>TORONTO//by Alexandra Bosanac -- Limited interest and limited resources have forced the cancellation of <a href="http://www.rjaa.ca/">Wordstock</a>, a daylong training and development symposium that has been held at Ryerson University for the last 15 years.<br /><br />The event has been a key component of the Alumni Weekend at the university. Several issues contributed to its cancellation, says president of the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association, event chair, and organizer Don McCurdy.<br />

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29 Aug

Colloque Médias et religion

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Existe-t-il aujourd’hui une relation particulière entre les médias et ce qui touche le religieux? C'est la question qui occupera les participants au colloque <em>Médias et religion</em> à Montréal le 3 octobre.</font></p>

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28 Aug

Legendary newspaper and Fifth Estate journalist and first news chief CityTV, Ron Haggart has died

<p>Ron Haggart,  a senior producer at The Fifth Estate after he was founding head of news at Citytv died Saturday in Toronto at 84, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2011/08/28/ron_haggart_84_legendary_journalist_delighted_in_controversy.html">reports the Toronto Star.</a> His broadcasting career followed years at Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Toronto Telegram in the late ‘50s, ‘60s and early ‘70s.  

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27 Aug

Brian Vallee, former newspaper reporter, Fifth Estate Producer

<p>Brian Vallee's Fifth Estate documentary about wife abuse sparked a life-long advocacy, along with books and other documentaries. Vallee, who died on July 22, was a reporter for newspapers in Toronto, Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie, is remembered in an <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/fifth-estate-producer-brian-valle-brought-spousal-abuse-to-the-forefront/article592665/">obituary in the Globe and Mail</a>.</p>

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26 Aug

Tenure track position open at Concordia

<p>The Department of Journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec invites applications for one tenure-track position in Journalism Studies. Candidates must be able to contribute to the department in three areas: teaching, research and administrative service. Specifically, candidates must be able to teach both academic and production courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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26 Aug

Kathy English on Jack Layton and the Star’s “advance obit”

<p>When the <em>Toronto Star</em> learned of Jack Layton's death earlier this week, it took only 20 minutes for the website to publish the news, and a 3,000-word obituary. While that may sound like a super-human feat, it was actually the result of careful advance preparation, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/public_editor/2011/08/26/english_the_end_of_the_story.html">writes <em>Star </em>public editor Kathy English in a column published today</a>.<br />

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26 Aug

Should journalists get a hospital’s permission before interviewing patients?

<p>When it comes to interviewing patients, should journalists get permission from the hospital's top brass first -- even if the source has already agreed? This question was at the heart of a <a href="http://pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?article=NzMyMA==">recent Press Complaints Commission (PCC) ruling </a>in the U.K.</p>

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