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20 Sep

Blanket ban on Stafford case attacked as ‘absurd’

Canada’s leading newspapers and media law experts have condemned a sweeping publication ban imposed April 30 on a hearing in the Tori Stafford murder case. Justice Dougald McDermid of Ontario’s […]

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20 Sep

Court unmasks anonymous media site posters

NEWS – In what may be the first case of its kind involving comments posted to a Canadian media website, the Halifax weekly The Coast has been ordered to identify […]

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20 Sep

Source protection: ‘Disappointing’ ruling has silver lining

By Brian MacLeod Rogers On May 7 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the appeal brought by the National Post and Andrew McIntosh to set aside a search warrant […]

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20 Sep

The upside of the confidential sources ruling

By Dean JobbThe next-day headlines focussed on the Supreme Court of Canada’s refusal to give journalists the constitutional right to protect sources, but they didn’t tell the whole story. There’s […]

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20 Sep

Ontario news website wins responsible journalism libel verdict

NewsThe new responsible journalism defence has helped an Ontario news website defeat a libel action launched by a man named in a police fraud alert. In one of the first […]

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20 Sep

Sparks Fly Over Squamish Fire Report

The Squamish Reporter, a local news website, says it was threatened with a lawsuit and asked to reveal the source of a leaked Fire Underwriters Survey after publishing a news […]

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20 Sep

Experiments in NYC J-Schools

<p>By Davis Shaver<br /><br />Universities around the country have had to shift the approach of their journalism programs to accommodate a quickly changing media landscape. New York City's journalism schools, in particular, are working to rethink their offerings and adapt to the new world.</p><p> </p>

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20 Sep

J-Source’s new Town Hall editor

J-Source welcomes our new Town Hall editor, Dale Bass. She currently works as a senior reporter with Black Press and is secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Association of Journalists. For four […]

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20 Sep

Pat Burns victime de la course aux scoops

La chaîne sportive TSN et plusieurs médias, dont CTV, The Gazette, le Toronto Sun et le Toronto Star, ont commis toute une bourde vendredi en annonçant la mort de l’ancien […]

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20 Sep

Should journalists make political contributions?

A new study by the U.S.’s Center for Responsive Politics has found that over 200 people identifying themselves as journalists or working for news organizations have donated nearly $470,000 to […]

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