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22 Feb

CBC News releases new mobile app, redesigns site

CBC News has released a new mobile app, in tandem with a redesign of CBCNews.ca. The app boasts “real-time access to breaking news, local news and weather content”, exclusive access […]

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22 Feb

CBC panel discusses absence of female bylines

CBC Radio One on Sunday ran two interesting segments about journalism. The first: Too Few Women in Publishing. “Pick up nearly any quality magazine, read the list of contributors and […]

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22 Feb

New textbook: Global Journalism Ethics

In his Literary Review of Canada review of Stephen JA Ward’s new textbook, Global Journalism Ethics, Paul Knox writes: “This is not a quick reference deadline handbook for deciding whether […]

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22 Feb

Supreme Court rules radio host comments “racist”, blocks class action suit

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-1 on the free-speech case of former radio shock jock André Arthur, now a member of Parliament for the Quebec City riding of […]

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22 Feb

Risky business for all journalists: Foreign reporting

Lara Logan’s sexual assault by a Cairo mob should have media organizations rethinking how they might better support reporters in the field, especially if they are female. Former CBC Radio […]

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22 Feb

“False news is never acceptable”: RTNDA

The Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA) doesn’t think that the CRTC’s potential propsoal to modify regulations that prohibit “any false or misleading” news is a threat to journalism standards in […]

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22 Feb

The vaccine-autism link controversy

UK investigative journalist Brian Deer was in Toronto last week to lead a panel discussion about the autism-vaccine link controversy, hosted by The Canadian Journalism Foundation (J-Source covered it live). […]

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22 Feb

J-Source is hiring an associate editor

Full-time contract position based in Toronto Start Date: March 21, 2011 Term of Contract: 1 year contract (with possibility of renewal) Salary: $35,000 – $40,000 / year, commensurate with experience […]

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22 Feb

Permis de mentir: le CRTC ne changera pas les règles

Les faussetés et tromperies demeureront interdites en information radiodiffusée. Le président du Conseil de radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes (CRTC), Konrad von Finckenstein, a expliqué vendredi lors d’une conférence à […]

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22 Feb

Broadcast journalist Dave Wright dies

Broadcast journalist Dave Wright has died from cancer at the age of 82, The Winnipeg Free Press reports. The veteran has worked in front of and behind the camera in […]

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