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5 Aug

Somalie: blackout médiatique sur l’enfer

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">L’état de famine a été décrété officiellement le 20 juillet dans deux provinces du sud de la Somalie, le sud de Bakool et le Lower Shabelle, mais les journalistes y sont traités en indésirables. La plupart des reportages qui parviennent aux Occidentaux arrivent donc des camps de réfugiés situés dans les pays limitrophes, en particulier le Kenya.</font></p>

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5 Aug

Journalist gets smackdown while taking photo; writes about it in Toronto Sun

<p>Freelance journalist David Menzies apparently got the smackdown from "a woman wearing a hijab" last weekend after she was captured in a photo he took at Younge-Dundas Square with his nine-year-old son. Being a journalist, Menzies <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/02/yonge-dundas-smackdown#disqus_thread">decided to write about it</a> -- in the <em>Toronto Sun</em>.<br /><br />Here is his detailing of the incident:<br />

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5 Aug

RTNDA appoints first digital news chair

<p>The Association of Electronic Journalists may be approaching its 50th anniversary, but the organization is anything but old-fashioned.<br /><br />Earlier this year, the Association <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/rtnda-changes-name">changed its name</a> to put emphasis on digital media. Now, it's chosen its first-ever digital chair, Andrew Lundy, Director of Globalnews.ca.<br /><a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2011/04/c9426.html">

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5 Aug

Taking stands on anonymity

<p>When the Ontario Superior Court dismissed former Aurora, Ont., mayor Phyllis Morris’s suit to identify anonymous commenters on a local political blog, it not only derailed the ex-mayor’s attempt to get $6 million in defamation damages out of the unidentified writers, but gave legal support to the idea that citizens should be able to express opinions anonymously.</p>

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4 Aug

Le torchon brûle entre le ministère des Transports et les médias

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Depuis l'effondrement, dimanche,</font> d'une poutre à l'entrée du tunnel Viger<font color="#000000"> sur l'autoroute 720, les journalistes talonnent le ministère des Transports. Mardi, le ministre Sam Hamad a été bombardé de questions lors d'un point de presse particulièrement mouvementé, au cours duquel le journaliste de <em>La Presse</em>, Patrick Lagacé, a bousculé un attaché de presse.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><strong><font color="#000000">Journalistes en colère</font></strong></p>

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4 Aug

Deadline approaches for CMA media awards for health reporting

<p>Journalists have until Aug. 8 to submit their entries for the sixth annual 2011 media awards for health reporting.<br /><br />Categories include:<br /><br /><strong>Excellence in Print Reporting</strong> (newspaper or magazine)<br />In-depth feature series<br />In-depth feature article (Michelle Lang Award)<br />News<br />    <br /><strong>Excellence in Radio Reporting</strong><br />News<br />In-depth<br /><br /><strong>Excellence in Television Reporting</strong><br />News<br />In-depth<br /><br /><strong>Excellence in Local Reporting</strong><br />Print<br />Broadcast

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4 Aug

Online advertising revenue tops newspaper ad revenue; still second to T.V.

<p>Canadian online advertising revenues for 2010 are grew 23 per cent from 2009, hitting $2.23-billion -- and beating out newspaper ad revenue. Online revenue is now second only to TV when it comes to the overall share of Canadian media advertising revenue, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB), which recently released last year's results.<br />

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3 Aug

Gemini nominees announced

<p>The 26th annual Gemini nominees have been announced. The Gemini awards celebrate the best in English-language TV and digital media. Check out the <a href="http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini26/press/GEMINI-Nominees-LIST-News-Release-Aug-3-2011.PDF">full list of nominees here</a>, including categories such as: best breaking news, best local newscast, and best host.</p>

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3 Aug

Ken Shaw returns to CTV after treatment for prostate cancer

<p>After a two-month absence, Ken Shaw returned to the anchor's chair at CTV -- <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ken-shaw-returns-to-ctv-after-cancer-treatment-1.678388">explaining later in the broadcast</a> that he had undergone treatment for prostate cancer. No announcement explaining his absence had been made previously.<br /><br />Shaw said there was no reason he should get special attention with 25,000 men being diagnosed annually, and 5,000 dying.<br />

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3 Aug

Pourquoi Twitter fait peur à certains journalistes?

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Les réseaux sociaux sont désormais bien implantés dans les salles de rédaction au point d'être pris en compte, depuis quelques mois, par le Guide de responsabilités des travailleurs de l'information de <em>La Presse</em>, les Normes et pratiques journalistiques de Radio-Canada, et le Guide de déontologie des journalistes du Québec édité par la FPJQ. Pourtant, plusieurs demeurent réticents.

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