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11 Aug

Chatelaine nabs new art director

Sun Ngo was hired by Rogers Media as the new deputy art director at Chatelaine. Ngo has worked for Wedding Bells and Best Health, Masthead reports. Melissa Guerts also joins […]

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11 Aug

New publisher, editor at Eye Weekly

Laas Turnbull will join Star Media Group as Eye Weekly‘s publisher and editor. Masthead reports: “Turnbull will assume leadership for all Eye Weekly print and online properties and report directly […]

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10 Aug

“I’m not your errand monkey”: freelancers

If you work from home, you may have already fallen victim to prejudice. Namely, that your office-bound friends and family dump errands and the occasional child on you. In a […]

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10 Aug

Sharing course syllabi

When preparing to teach a journalism course, especially for the first time, it’s always helpful to find out what other j-educators do who teach the same kind of course. Now Poynter’s […]

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10 Aug

Canadian mags see circ decline

Most of the 75 Canadian publications that responded to the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ survey reported decreases or staid circulation numbers. There are a few exceptions: Hello! Canada and Maclean’s, […]

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10 Aug

China: State of disarray

Chinese stations in Canada well serve their audience with popular fare from Hong Kong and the People’s Republic. Why the same can’t be said of their amateur news shows. This […]

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10 Aug

Riot act: extreme journalism

Swiss journalist Dominik Bärlocher, who covers the riot beat at his newspaper, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a day covering a nasty football riot – including face-punching, macing and […]

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10 Aug

Thomson Reuters acquires Canada Law Book

Thomson Reuters, owner of legal magazine Lexpert, has acquired Canada Law Book, the producer of various legal trade magazines. Canada Law Book is a division of Cartwright Group Ltd., which […]

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10 Aug

Rogers partners with Torstar

Rogers Communications has partnered with Torstar Corp. in developing their online publishing system TOPS. The Winnipeg Free Press reports: “The system has been used for more than four years by […]

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10 Aug

Know thy typeface

A new quiz from mental_floss magazine makes you guess the publication based only on their cover logo typeface. In the “Magazines and Newspapers” edition of mental_floss‘ regular quiz feature called […]

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