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25 Jul

Titre professionnel: l’ACJ indécise

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000">Six mois après le dépôt du Rapport Payette, qui recommandait au gouvernement du Québec l'adoption d'une loi pour doter les journalistes d'un titre professionnel, l'Association canadienne des journalistes reste indécise. Est-elle en faveur de la principale recommandation du Groupe de travail sur le journalisme et l'avenir de l'information? Alexandra Bosanac, collaboratrice de notre branche anglophone, J-Source, a posé la question au président de l'association, Hugo Rodrigues.</font></p>

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25 Jul

Front page coverage of Oslo from around the world: Poynter

<p><a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/140375/oslo-norway-attacks-featured-on-front-pages-across-the-globe/">Poynter has gathered</a> front page treatments from papers across the globe of the Oslo, Norway attacks. In Canada, the <em>Toronto Sun</em> and <em>National Post</em> both made the list. As Poynter notes, many papers from around the world showed a photo of the 32-year-old Norwegian man police say confessed to the killings; other papers ignored the attacks entirely.</p>

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25 Jul

No more NYT Magazine columns for Bill Keller

<p>Bill Keller's columns for the <em>New York Times Magazine</em> will end in September, six months after they started. At the same time, Keller will step down officially as executive editor of the <em>New York Times</em> paper. He will now become an op-ed columnist for the paper.</p><p><a href="http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-fighting-back-3384275?navSection=media-news&toc_preselected=65#/article/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-3732930">In an email</a>, Keller told WWD:</p>

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25 Jul

Man who penned “Headless Body in Topless Bar” retires

<p>After 40 years with the <em>New York Post</em>, the man who penned the famous headline "Headless Body in Topless Bar" has retired.</p><p>Vincent A. Musetto penned that screaming headline in 1983, and is his most famous. As the <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/07/24/headless_body_in_topless_bar_headline_writer_retires.html"><em>Toronto Star</em></a> reports, it made <em>New York Magazine</em>'s 2003 list of best tabloid headlines. But that's not his favourite headline.</p><p>According to the <em>Star</em>:</p>

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22 Jul

Introverts and the newsroom

<p>To all those quiet leaders out there, Poynter's Tom Huang has some simple words: It's OK. In fact, it's great.<br /><br />A quiet leader himself, Huang believe introverts can offer as much to the newsroom as their extrovert colleagues. <a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/leadership-management/139809/how-introverts-can-strengthen-their-presence-roles-in-the-newsroom/">Check out the whole article at Poynter</a> for some tips on how to strengthen skills while staying true to your silent self, but also consider Huang's closing statement:<br />

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22 Jul

Are the News Corp. women getting fair coverage?: Globe

<p>In today's<em> Globe and Mai</em>l, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/news-and-views/judith-timson/the-news-corp-women-fair-coverage-or-negative-stereotypes/article2105469/page2/">Judith Timson asks</a> whether the News Corp. women -- Rebekah Brooks and Wendi Deng Murdoch -- are getting fair coverage from the media, or if they're surrounded by a bunch of negative stereotypes.<br />

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22 Jul

Jon Stewart and John Oliver on News of the World

<p>Know someone who needs a round-up on the News of the World hacking story? Just want a pick-me-up? Either way, check this video out for a laugh: Jon Stewart and Englishman John Oliver cover the scandal as only they can:<br /><br /> </p><p><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="369" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/?layout=&playlist_cid=&media_type=video&content=3R2V4W3NKC6CZ5NB&read_more=1&widget_type_cid=svp" width="460"></iframe></p>

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22 Jul

Explosion en Norvège: le plus grand tabloïd du pays touché

<p><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: normal">Une violente explosion a ravagé aujourd'hui le quartier du gouvernement norvégien à Oslo. Il s'agirait d'un attentat à la bombe. Plusieurs bâtiments publics ont été endommagés, ainsi que les bureaux du tabloïd <em>Verdens Gang</em> (<em>VG</em>), le journal ayant la plus large diffusion en Norvège. </span></font></p>

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22 Jul

Le Journal (ethnique) de Montréal

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><em><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">Par Louis-Samuel Perron, </span><span lang="fr-FR"><span style="font-weight: normal">récipiendaire du Grand Prix du Journalisme Indépendant 2011 dans la catégorie Étudiant – originellement paru dans le </span></span><a href="http://montrealcampus.ca/"><span lang="fr-FR"><span style="font-weight: normal">Montréal Campus</span></span></a><span lang="fr-FR"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, journal étudiant de l'UQAM.</span></span></font></font

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21 Jul

Canadian media failed to deliver on Canada Post strike coverage: The Dominion

<p>During the recent Canada Post strike, corporate and public media lacked fair, critical and accurate coverage, writes Kaley Kennedy in the independent publication <em>The Dominion</em>. Indeed, she adds, there are several complexities reporters and editors seem to miss when it comes to labour reporting:<br />

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