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26 Aug

Construction: Radio-Canada à nouveau poursuivie

<p>Radio-Canada fait face à une nouvelle poursuite judiciaire impliquant des entreprises liées à l'entrepreneur Tony Accurso. La société Constructions Louisbourg poursuit le réseau public pour outrage au tribunal. Elle l'accuse d'avoir diffusé illégalement, au printemps, des informations comprises dans un dossier mis sous scellé par la Cour.</p>

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26 Aug

Reporting on Jack Layton: Was it different than reporting on other politicians?

<p>In light of the tremendous outpouring of grief and condolences -- both from journalists and not -- following Jack Layton's death, <em>J-Source</em> wants to know: Was reporting on Jack Layton different than reporting on other politicians? Comment below, or send us your journalistic memories on Twitter or through <a href="mailto:lmckeon@j-source.ca">email</a>. We'll post them below.</p>

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26 Aug

Full-time prof for new BCS degree program at Grant MacEwan

<p>Grant MacEwan University's Centre for the Arts and Communications (CFAC) is seeking a Journalism faculty member to teach in the Bachelor of Communication Studies (BCS) degree program and to provide leadership in the implementation of this new degree.<br /><br /> MacEwan offers over 70 different credentials (including seven baccalaureate degrees) to more than 40,000 students on four campuses in Edmonton, Alberta, one of Canada's most diverse, culturally advanced and economically vibrant cities.<br />

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25 Aug

Caught in the Web? Free speech and the Internet

<p><strong>by Melissa Shaw</strong></p>

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25 Aug

Ghostwritten op-eds are an unacceptable deception: Dan Gillmor

<p>Ghostwritten op-eds are outright lies that deceive readers, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/24/oped-ghostwriter-deception">writes Dan Gillmor</a>, director of the Knight centre for digital media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, in a recent edition of the Guardian.</p><p>This ethical question -- should newspapers print ghostwritten op-eds -- is barely on the radar of most news organizations, he adds. But Gillmor believes it should be.</p>

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25 Aug

CTV Winnipeg’s Sylvia Kuzyk announces last day

<p>Veteran CTV Winnipeg anchor Sylvia Kuzyk's <a href="http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/ctv-winnipeg-announces-sylvia-kuzyks-final-newcast/1000545194/?CTID=1000545194&utm_source=BM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EN08252011&link_source=aypr_BM&link_targ=DailyNews">last day is official</a>. After nearly 38 years, Kuzyk's final newscast with the station wil be Sept. 2 on CTV News at Six.

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25 Aug

CAJ Montreal chapter president resigns

<p>(This article was translated from the original French article that appears on our French sister site, <a href="http://projetj.ca/article/lacj-se-dechire-autour-du-rapport-payette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ProjetJ</a>.)</p>

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24 Aug

L’ACJ se déchire autour du Rapport Payette

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Le président du chapitre montréalais de l'Association canadienne des journalistes (ACJ), Roger-Luc Chayer, a claqué la porte de l'organisation hier.

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24 Aug

Commenting on the dead: all in the timing?

<p><em>When Christie Blatchford came under fire for critiquing Jack Layton’s letter to Canadians on the day of his death, the question became: how much should taste, and sensitivities of timing, encumber opinion journalism? J-Source's <strong>Ivor Shapiro</strong> thinks there’s another question: what exactly is “journalistic” about the expression of opinions?</em></p>

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24 Aug

Five Questions for David Beers

<p>J-Source <em>talks to <a href="http://thetyee.ca/">Tyee</a> editor and founder <strong>David Beers</strong> about being the puffer fish of social media, why long-form works online, and how the B.C.-based online publication is rounding out the journalistic conversation in Canada.</em></p>

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