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13 May

Janet McFarland wins Landsberg Award

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Janet McFarland_0.JPG" title="" />Janet McFarland, a business reporter with <em>The Globe and Mail</em> whose reporting raised the issue of gender inequality on corporate boards, is the winner of the inaugural <a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/awards_landsberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Landsberg Award</a>.</p>

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12 May

Should media outlets tell readers the news was created by robots?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/robot tech.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Matt Sutton</strong></p><p>A news-writing robot created by <a href="http://automatedinsights.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Automated Insights</a> is estimated to “write” one billion stories in 2014.</p>

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12 May

Pat Brethour joins Brunswick News as editor-in-chief

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Pat Brethour_1.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Pat Brethour is leaving <em>The Globe and Mail</em> after 18 years to join Brunswick News as its editor-in-chief.</p><p>Brethour, who is the night editor, will work his last day at the <em>Globe</em> on May 23 and join Brunswick News on May 26.</p>

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12 May

Memo: Pat Brethour joins Brunswick News as editor-in-chief

<p><strong>Here is the memo from <em>The Globe and Mail</em>'s editor-in-chief David Walmsley:</strong></p><p>It is with mixed emotions The Globe announces the departure of Pat Brethour.</p><p>He leaves us on May 23 to become the Editor-in-Chief, Brunswick News. In this role, Patrick will be responsible for the strategic direction of the BNI Editorial Department, along with day-to-day management of all publications and online content for all devices and platforms.</p><p>It is a wonderful opportunity for Pat and we wish him well. We will miss his booming chuckle.</p>

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12 May

Robert Fife takes CAJ’s top investigative journalism award

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Robert Fife_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>CTV’s Robert Fife won the Canadian Association of Journalists top investigative journalism prize. Fife won the <a href="http://www.caj.ca/?p=3901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don McGillivray prize for investigative journalism</a> for his reporting on the Senate expenses scandal.</p>

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12 May

Chronicle Herald leads at Atlantic Journalism Awards

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Chronicle Herald building 1.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Ariane Hanlon</em></p><p>The <em>Chronicle Herald</em> led at the Atlantic Journalism Awards in Halifax, picking up seven gold prizes, including three wins for the <em>Herald Magazine</em>.</p><p><em>The Coast</em> followed win three wins.</p>

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12 May

Katie May wins Greg Clark Award

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Katie May_1.JPG" title="" /> Katie May, a digital copy editor with the <em>Winnipeg Free Press</em>, is the winner of the Greg Clark Award for early-career journalists. </p>

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12 May

Grosse restructuration à 24 heures

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/index_8.jpg" title="" />Le quotidien gratuit de Québecor Média abolit deux postes cadres et met également à pied ses deux infographistes. Il n’y a plus de salle des nouvelles en tant que telle dans la tour de la Bourse, les journalistes affectés à l’actualité ayant maintenant leurs bureaux dans les locaux du Journal de Montréal, alors que le service culture devrait bientôt déménager au sein de l’agence QMI.</strong></p>

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12 May

Matt Hartley leaves the Financial Post

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Matt Hartley_0.JPG" title="" /> Matt Hartley, editor of <em>Financial Post</em>’s tech desk and Post Arcade, is leaving the Postmedia newspaper to join communications agency North Strategic as its senior editor.</p><p>Hartley will leave the <em>Post</em> after five years with the newspaper and will take up his new role at North Strategic later this May.</p>

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12 May

Christine Dobby moves to Globe as telecom reporter

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Christine Dobby_0.JPG" title="" /> Christine Dobby will move to <em>The Globe and Mail</em> to cover the telecom beat.</p><p>Dobby, who currently covers telecom and media for the <em>Financial Post</em>, will fill the role vacated by Rita Trichur moving to <em>Wall Street Journal</em>.</p>

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