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2 Feb

Participatory journalism: What do you think that means?

I originally wrote this post for my blog, but it’s generated such traffic I thought I’d also bring the conversation to J-source. Citizen journalism, public journalism, grassroots journalism, participatory journalism—just […]

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2 Feb

CBC’s new 5-year plan

CBC president Hubert Lacroix released a new five-year plan for the public broadcaster this week, which includes more Canadian programming and a focus on regional expansion. He said the new […]

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2 Feb

Rétablir l’équilibre du rapport de force entre employeurs et journalistes

Les parlementaires se penchent depuis hier sur le conflit de travail au Journal de Montréal qui dure depuis plus de deux ans. Ils s’intéressent précisément aux dispositions anti-briseurs de grève […]

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2 Feb

Want to save the media? Give journalists status: report

<p>In the heart of the credit crisis, when it looked as though a handful of large U.S. banks were going to collapse, the government stepped in with a massive bailout and new regulations. In 2009, the Quebec government struck a task force to propose solutions to the province's "media crisis", in light of new technologies that have diluted the industry.<br /><br />The first report from the Working Group on Journalism and the Future of the News has just been published. Among the potential solutions: transforming journalism into a card-carrying profession.<br />

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2 Feb

Sports journalist Jack Matheson dies

Canadian sports journalism icon Jack Matheson died last week at the age of 86, the CBC reports. Matheson, an inductee in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Manitoba Hockey […]

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1 Feb

JdeM: la loi anti-briseurs de grève divise

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">En resserrant les dispositions anti-briseurs de grève pour tenir compte du travail à distance, le gouvernement pénaliserait l'économie du Québec, «à cause d'un conflit qui concerne moins de 200 personnes» au <i>Journal de Montréal</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, estime</span><i> </i>le président de Quebecor, Pierre Karl Péladeau, invité à témoigner ce matin devant <span style="font-style: normal;">la commission de l'économie et du travail.</span></p>

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1 Feb

Breaking up with WikiLeaks

In last Friday’s episode of CBC’s The Current, host Anna Maria Tremonti speaks with the New York Time‘s London Bureau Chief John Burns, who contributed to the paper’s first e-book, […]

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1 Feb

Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis join Postmedia’s new digital advisory board

Postmedia Network Inc. has recruited online experts Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Janet Bannister and Judy Simms to its new digital advisory board. The board is headed by Postmedia’s executive VP, […]

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1 Feb

When media giants merge, what’s the worry?

US regulators fret about competition a lot more than our CRTC. Check the BCE-CTVglobemedia hearings. Michael Geist reports. This week the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will hold hearings on […]

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1 Feb

Who is Don Burroughs and why is he saying these things?

Vancouver blogger Adrian McNair has taken issue with a column by Susan Delacourt on the possibility of a spring federal election. Delacourt quotes Don Burroughs in her story, noting he […]

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