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21 Jun

Sirius, XM Canada merger closes

The Sirius/XM Canada merger announced way back in November 2010 has now officially closed. The new company will operate as SiriusXM Canada, and trade under the symbol XSR on the […]

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21 Jun

Négociation collective: les pigistes s’activent

L’Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec (AJIQ) s’active pour que le Rapport Payette ne s’empoussière pas sur une tablette. En lien avec la seconde recommandation du rapport, elle organise une […]

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21 Jun

Top 100 non-fiction books of all time

Over in the UK, the Guardian has published a list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. We’re talking way back to 400 BC here (The Histories by […]

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21 Jun

The skinny on the Micheners

The winner of the 2010 Michener Award will be announced tonight. But what is the history behind Canada’s most prestigious journalism award for public service journalism? What news organization has […]

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21 Jun

The bear facts: A local story goes viral, and speaks volumes about the state of broadcast news

In 2009 the story of a bear sighting in Cleveland became world famous. Not because of the bear, but because of the way the story was covered. Field Notes editor […]

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21 Jun

Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide, second edition

After a year of teaching with the text, J-Source asked two j-school profs what they thought of Robert Cribb, Dean Jobb, David McKie, Fred Vallance-Jones’ second edition of Digging Deeper: […]

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21 Jun

Inside Christie Blatchford’s goodbye party

J-Source reporter Alex Bosanac caught up with the former Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford at the paper’s send-off party last week to chat about Blatchford’s move to Postmedia, her […]

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21 Jun

Echoes of a Proud Nation: full documentary

Reporting within a small community presents its own challenges, but media in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake face a much larger, longstanding conflict with neighbouring Francophone media. The community of […]

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21 Jun

Vancouver riot: Is social media becoming the surveillance society?

The Vancouver riot aftermath gives us a sobering glimpse of the future of the Internet, some commentators are noting. Has society created the court of Facebook? First there was the […]

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20 Jun

Convergence, multiplateforme et déclin du journalisme indépendant

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