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8 Jun

We love the internet. If only it made us money.

Canadians continue to celebrate excellence in journalism by awarding the country’s best print, radio and television stories – and now, for the first time, many awards panels are considering digital […]

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8 Jun

Covering the Vatican

Ellin Bessner, a Jewish journalist, was a card-carrying member of the Vatican Press Association in the late 80s. She discusses the screening process, the uber-modern newsroom and how covering the […]

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8 Jun

Ethics 2.0 – dos and don’ts of social media

<p><img align="Left" alt="twitter" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/twitter.jpg" style="width: 190px; height: 190px;" title="Twitter" vspace="5" /><span style="font-style: italic;">Do you fact-check all your retweets? Do you publish rumours, or gossip? Is it OK to have an opinion in your personal blog?

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8 Jun

How do you say mea culpa, 140 characters at a time?

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Ivor Shapiro" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Ivor_new_headshot.JPG" style="width: 145px; height: 108px;" title="Ivor Shapiro" vspace="5" />In which </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ivor Shapiro</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, an old-dog reporter who just happens to be J-Source's ethics editor, explains how he learned, first-hand, that the new tricks of real-time reporting can be perilous.

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8 Jun

Magnet workshop: Editorial workflow – Meeting deadlines without micromanaging

Any good managing editor will tell you that you can only control 80% of the process of producing a magazine: That gives you enough time to handle the 20% that […]

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8 Jun

Magnet workshop: SEO writing

Ray Litvak is the founder of Writing Web Words, a company that helps local businesses raise their online profile using SEO. He led an SEO writing workshop at Magnet, an […]

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8 Jun

Documents show Harper’s extreme political control

The Canadian Press has obtained almost 1,000 pages of documents that represent the federal government’s “hyper-extreme” political control. Known in government jargon as MEPs – Message Event Proposals – the […]

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7 Jun

Helen Thomas announces retirement after offensive comments

Long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas has retired after five decades of presidential press coverage following the backlash over offensive comments she made last week were captured in a Youtube […]

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7 Jun

CTV reports online growth

CTV.ca reports more than 138.7 million video views, up 55.5% over last season  – more video viewers than any other Canadian broadcaster, Broadcaster Magazine reports. “Online ratings winners this season […]

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7 Jun

RTNDA announces BC regional award winners

The Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA) has announced the winners of its regional British Columbia electronic journalism awards. TELEVISION     Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast    –   CFJC TV Kamloops […]

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