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24 Aug

On your mark: Newspapers perform

<p><em>The Interactive Advertising Bureau recently reported that its members had thoroughly thumped daily newspapers in the great ad revenue fight. Not so fast, writes <strong>Susan Brophy Down</strong>, managing director, dailies, of Newspapers Canada. This story also appears on the <a href="http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/news/research/your-mark-newspapers-perform">Newspapers Canada website</a>.</em></p>

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24 Aug

The Future of News: RTDNA

<p><em>First-ever RTDNA digital chair <strong>Andrew Lundy</strong> and RTDNA president <strong>Andy LeBlanc</strong> talk optimistically on the shift toward digital, how it's changing journalism for the better, and why the recent name change is more than a simple letter swap; it's the start of a revolution.</em></p>

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24 Aug

A culture of grief and trauma

<p>This week’s Resolute Bay <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/20/north-air-crash.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane crash</a> has journalists scrambling for <a href="http://globalnews.ca/regina/canada/first+air+says+cause+of+jet+crash+unknown+2+of+3+survivors+sent+to+ottawa/6442467531/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reactions</a> from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/trauma-interview-right-or-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trauma interview</a> is an increasingly common assignment.

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24 Aug

A culture of grief?

<p>This week’s Resolute Bay <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/20/north-air-crash.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane crash</a> has journalists scrambling for <a href="http://globalnews.ca/regina/canada/first+air+says+cause+of+jet+crash+unknown+2+of+3+survivors+sent+to+ottawa/6442467531/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reactions</a> from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/trauma-interview-right-or-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trauma interview</a> is an increasingly common assignment.

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23 Aug

Tony Burman talks to the Globe

<p>If you haven't already, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/tony-burman-al-jazeera-and-the-future-of-news/article591164/">Gayle MacDonald's<em> Globe and Mail</em> interview</a> with Tony Burman, of Al Jazeera English and CBC fame, and also the newest Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair at Ryerson University.<br /><br />MacDonald talks to Burman about Al Jazeera, but also the future of news, covering off topics such as "scoop-obsessed news publications", social media, and audience input.<br />

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23 Aug

Pieuvre.ca: média flottant indépendant

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Né en 2009, sous l'impulsion de Hugo Prévost et Mathieu Labrie, le site <a href="http://www.pieuvre.ca/"><em>Pieuvre.ca</em></a> s'est doté ces dernières semaines d'un nouveau look. Ses fondateurs souhaitaient évacuer l'étiquette de blogue qui leur collait aux tentacules et offrir une plateforme plus professionnelle à leur quinzaine de collaborateurs et à leurs quelque 10 000 visiteurs uniques mensuels. <em>ProjetJ.ca</em> s'est entretenu avec eux.</font></p>

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23 Aug

Un modèle d’affaires adapté au numérique

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Par </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Philippe Lépine</span><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal"> (texte originellement paru dans <a href="http://www.ajiq.qc.ca/bulletin-independant/medias-en-mutation.php"><em>L'Indépendant</em></a>, bulletin d'information mensuel de l'AJIQ)</span></span></font></p>

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23 Aug

Blatchford on Layton: Does she have a point, or was it plain bad?

<p><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/22/christie-blatchford-laytons-death-turns-into-a-thoroughly-public-spectacle/#more-48340">Christie Blatchford's column</a> on the media coverage of Jack Layton's death is bold, provocative, and either crass or brave, depending on who's talking, but does she have a point?<br />

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22 Aug

Québec lance une consultation publique sur l’info

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">(deuxième mise à jour)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">La ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine, Christine St-Pierre, a annoncé ce matin la tenue d'une consultation publique sur l'information d'intérêt public dans les médias. Elle donnait ainsi suite au rapport du Groupe de travail sur le journalisme et l'avenir de l'information, piloté par la professeure Dominique Payette, qui lui a été livré en janvier.</font></p>

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22 Aug

The CBC stumbled with l’affaire Duceppe: Citizen columnist

<p>Former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe's "whirlwind business relationship" with Radio-Canada isn't likely to fade from public discourse any time soon, <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/stumbled%2Bwith%2Baffaire%2BDuceppe/5282008/story.html">writes Michael Taube in a recent <em>Ottawa Citizen</em> column</a>.</p><p>"In fact," he adds, "Our public broadcaster will rue the day its French language affiliate tried to get in bed with an ex-politician who wanted to break apart Canada."</p>

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