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18 Jan

Bande à part trace l’avenir de Radio-Canada

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Le projet musical mutant de Radio-Canada, Bande à part, fête ses dix ans. Ce laboratoire médiatique a fait son apparition en ligne en janvier 2001 avec l'ambitieux mandat de devenir une «référence incontournable pour toutes les musiques émergentes francophones» et d'inventer une nouvelle façon de faire de la radio, du web et du multimédia. Dix ans plus tard, la directrice d'Espace Musique, Christiane Leblanc, dit «mission accomplie».</p>

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18 Jan

What are the legal issues when retelling a potentially libelous life story?

Question: I work in the lovely City of Kenora, where an elder has asked me to help her tell her life story. The parts about living off the land and […]

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18 Jan

Social media and news: Tapping into the digital audience

By Sneha Kulkarni Social networking and social media sites are undeniably powerful tools in today’s information landscape.  For journalists, such as myself, the challenge now is learning how to optimize […]

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18 Jan

Rape, sexual harrassment on the job: don’t ask, don’t tell

Journalist Mac McClelland’s experience in Haiti, where she was covering the aftermath of the country’s devastating earthquake, included sexual threats from the man she had hired to drive her around. […]

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18 Jan

The Canadian hostage, and the indifferent media

I’ve never been impressed with the convoluted definitions of what makes a journalist. I think it’s pretty simple: someone who collects and presents information to you and me. I’d only […]

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17 Jan

Duvalier prédateur de la presse

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">L'ancien président «à vie» haïtien, Jean-Claude Duvalier, a atterri à l'aéroport de Port-au-Prince hier près 25 ans d'exil en France. Surnommé Bébé Doc, il a gouverné Haïti d'une main de fer entre 1971 et 1986. Tout au long de son règne comme de celui de son père, Papa Doc, «la torture systématique et les autres formes de mauvais traitements étaient monnaie courante en Haïti», estime Amnestie Internationale.</p>

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17 Jan

Tentative agreement in Robertson freelance class action suit

A tentative $5-million agreement in the final leg of freelancer Heather Robertson’s lawsuit has been announced with Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., Rogers Publishing Limited, CEDROM-SNi Inc., ProQuest Information and Learning […]

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14 Jan

Le Journal de Montreal lockout two years on

A Dec. 4, 2010 solidarity demonstration for journalists and staff at Le Journal de Montreal. Photo: Ted Sprague By Ted Sprague It has been almost two year since 253 workers […]

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14 Jan

CAB withdraws from policy and regulatory debates, focuses on copyright

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has changed its plans to disband the organization entirely, instead deciding it will no longer advocate on regulatory policy. It will narrow its focus […]

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14 Jan

Toronto radio station puts extremist on air

<p><img align="Left" alt="Dean Blundell" border="0" height="140" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/dean_blundell.jpg" title="Dean Blundell" vspace="5" width="129" />After learning that a group of religious extremists planned to picket the funerals of Arizona shooting victims -- starting with the services for 9-year-old Christina Green -- Toronto rock radio station 102.1 The Edge offered them airtime on the Dean Blundell show yesterday <a href="http://www.edge.ca/DJsandShows/TheDeanBlundellShow/Main.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in exchange for calling off the protest.</

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