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16 Aug

Piraté, LeDevoir.com annonce la mort de Jean Charest

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Le site du <em>Devoir</em> a été la cible de pirates informatiques au cours de la nuit. À 1h09 du matin, un court texte annonçant la mort du Premier ministre Jean Charest a été publié en manchette, semant la pagaille sur les réseaux sociaux et dans les salles de rédaction.</font></p>

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16 Aug

Le Devoir site hacked, Charest falsely reported dead

<p>Montreal news organization Le Devoir is apologizing this morning for a cyber-attack that falsely reported the death of Quebec premier Jean Charest. At about 1 a.m. local time, the site was hacked and an article was posted on the home page declaring Charest had suffered a heart attack and died. The article was live for about 2-1/2 hours before it was removed.</p>

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15 Aug

La radio de Radio-Canada se renouvelle de l’intérieur

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Curiosité, audace, ouverture, passion et insolence. C'est le ton que la radio de Radio-Canada a souhaité donner à sa programmation automne-hiver 2011-2012 lancée ce matin. Au programme, des classiques comme la tribune de Pierre Maisonneuve et le retour à la maison de Michel Désautels, mais aussi 11 nouvelles émissions portées par presque autant de nouvelles voix issues du vivier de talents du réseau public.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><strong><font color="#000000">Renouveler l'auditoire</font></strong></p>

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10 Aug

Tabloid journalism and crime reporting

<p><em><strong>Romayne Smith Fullerton</strong> and <strong>Maggie Jones Patterson</strong> take a look at how the European tabloids report on crime. This tell-all reporting style can ruin lives and reputations. Does journalism that's not done solely to sell papers ultimately win people’s support?  </em></p>

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10 Aug

More than five questions for Michael Hlinka

<p><em>We talk to <strong>Michael Hlinka</strong>, who reports on business issues of the day for CBC's Metro Morning, about the abysmal coverage of the latest installment of the U.S. debt crisis, political bias in business reporting, and the questions journalists are missing.</em></p>

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10 Aug

Policing the borders means policing Canadian journalism?

<p><em>Moments before Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney delivered an important speech, <a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2011/07/policing-borders-means-policing-canadian-journalism">Rabble</a> journalist <strong>David P. Ball</strong> was kicked out of the press conference -- despite having a press invite and the complimentary cookie they gave him in hand. This story originally appeared on <a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2011/07/policing-borders-means-policing-canadian-journalism">Rabble.ca.</a></em></p>

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10 Aug

Fanning the flames of intolerance

<p><em>In framing interim federal NDP leader Nycole Turmel's affiliation with the Bloc as a scandal, writes <strong>Nick Van der Graaf</strong>, The Globe and Mail revealed the dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics. This story was originally published in <a href="http://www.themarknews.com/articles/6294-fanning-the-flames-of-intolerance/">The Mark</a>, and a version of it also appeared on <a href="http://neodemokratia.ca/">Van der Graaf's blog</a>.</em></p>

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8 Aug

Former NHL-er Alex Kovalev takes shots at Ottawa hockey media

<p>Former Ottawa Senator hockey player Alex Kovalev may have moved on to a two-year contract with the KHL, but he's not done with Ottawa yet. Kovalev gave an interview with Pavel Lysenkov of <em>Sovetsky Sport</em> recently and  had plenty to say about Ottawa sports journalists.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/NHLer+Kovalev+trashes+former+Senators+coach+Clouston+Ottawa+hockey+media/5223057/story.html"><em>Ottawa Citizen </em>has a partial transcript posted online</a>, which is worth checking out. Here's a taste:</p>

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8 Aug

Steve Maich talks Sportsnet with Toronto Star

<p>So, will Canada's only general interest sports pub look like a Canuck <em>Sports Illustrated</em>, or <em>Maclean's</em> with sports? Neither, new <em>Sportsnet</em> editor Steve Maich tells the <em>Toronto Star </em>in a recent interview.<br /><br />The <em>Star</em>'s <a href="http://www.thestar.com/sports/2011/08/08/mudhar_getting_the_scoop_on_sportsnet_magazine.html">Raju Mudhar caught up with Maich</a> to get the scoop on Rogers' latest magazine venture, and Maich finally shed some light on what the new publication will look and read like:<br />

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5 Aug

How business journos use the internet and social media

<p>A whopping 98 per cent of business journalists use the internet to read news, according to a <a href="http://www.arketi.com/pdfs/Arketi_Web_Watch_2011.pdf">new U.S. study by Arketi</a>, a PR and marketing firm based in Atlanta. Maybe that's no big surprise. What about this: nearly as many also use it search for story sources and ideas.</p>

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