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2 Mar

Should FOI requests be released to all media at the same time?

BC Ferries recently fell under provincial Freedom of Information law. Now, the company’s site promises to release information “to those interested when records are made available to a requestor.” The […]

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2 Mar

Force of Nature: David Suzuki’s last lecture

The CBC plans to celebrate the 50th year of The Nature of Things along with host David Suzuki’s 75th birthday. On March 13, the CBC will air Force of Nature: […]

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2 Mar

Call for papers: Public strategies for Canadian journalism

McGill, Concordia and Université Laval have put out a call for papers for a conference titled “Deliberation, Diversity, and Dollars: Public Strategies for Journalism in the Canadian Media Ecology“, to […]

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2 Mar

If you’re going to focus on Charlie Sheen, there are better ways to do it

The infamous party boy Charlie Sheen, recently outsed for his hit sitcom, has done no less than a dozen high-profile interviews in the past week to complain. Seems the media […]

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1 Mar

Le journal Métro célèbre ses 10 ans

Il y a dix ans jour pour jour, le groupe suédois Metro international, en partenariat avec Transcontinental et Gesca, lançait le journal Métro à Montréal. Distribué gratuitement dans le réseau […]

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1 Mar

Ryerson symposium will ask question: how do women reporters do it all?

How does she do it? How will she do it? The Ryerson Journalism Research Centre has released the itinerary for their inaugural symposium titled “Women in the Field: Changing the […]

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1 Mar

How a j-student broke the Bev Oda “not” story

<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Chantaie Allick</span><br /><br />Few people in the media know that the firestorm that has engulfed Bev Oda began, in part, as the result of the reporting efforts of a graduate student  at Carleton University.<br /><br /><img align="left" alt="Bev Oda memo" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/kairos_oda.jpg" title="Bev Oda memo" vspace="5" /></p>

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1 Mar

Forget the Canadian angle; give me the news.

By Claude Adams   Last night (Feb. 24) after a tumultuous day in Libya, all three Canadian networks–CBC, CTV and Global– decided that the prime story of the day was […]

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1 Mar

“Why didn’t you tell me this before?” Why j-schools need risk & trauma training

Megan Radford (pictured below) is a graduate journalism student at the University of Western Ontario — she’s already undertaken an internship in Malaysia and covered the G20 protests in Toronto. […]

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1 Mar

Reporting for the Media, Canadian edition

Reporting for the Media, Canadian Edition is the first ever Canadian edition of a American text that was developed nearly 35 years ago. Joy Crysdale reviews a traditional text’s approach […]

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