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4 Feb

Information not free in British Columbia: report

The government of British Columbia breaks its own law on meeting freedom of information requests nearly half the time, reports a study (pdf) submitted to a legislature committee reviewing the […]

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4 Feb

Couvrir Haïti

Les médias ont-ils dérapé dans la couverture de la catastrophe qui a secoué Haïti? La question fait l’objet d’un débat soutenu sur la blogosphère et sur les médias sociaux. Les […]

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4 Feb

Un an de lock-out au Journal de Montréal

La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec soutient que son rôle n’est pas de se prononcer en faveur d’une partie ou d’une autre dans le conflit de travail au Journal […]

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4 Feb

How a top athlete was snubbed while journalists carried the torch

Journalists shouldn’t carry the Olympic torch, writes former Globe and Mail sports columnist William Houston, especially when media personalities like Ben Mulroney and Sandie Rinaldo take spots away from great […]

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4 Feb

Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award winner announced

Twenty-four year old freelance photojournalist Adrien Veczan has been awarded the first Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award, the Canadian Journalism Foundation and The Canadian Press (CP) announced. As winner of the […]

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4 Feb

Olympic criticism by outsiders hard to bear

A Globe and Mail columnist takes umbrage with how some foreign media portray Vancouver’s Olympics. Gary Mason targets two stories in particular. A Guardian piece headlined “Vancouver’s Olympics head for […]

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3 Feb

Five things I learned at the Innovate News Conference in Toronto

J-Source sent Hugo Rodrigues to the Innovate News Conference in Toronto put on by the Canadian Association of Journalist asking him to come back with five things he learned from […]

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3 Feb

The future of journalism is…Radiohead?

When magazine writer Paige Williams self-published a 6,000-word profile that “had no other home,” readers contributed online. In this case, Ira Basen writes, crowd funding worked, but what drives readers […]

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2 Feb

La responsabilité politique derrière les conflits chez Quebecor

Marc-François Bernier (Ph.D.), professeur titulaire, Université d’Ottawa Les abus de pouvoirs de Quebecor envers ses journalistes résultent de l’indifférence des parlementaires québécois. En répétant le scénario de la mise à pied […]

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2 Feb

Get your Olympics on

As the news gathering pack makes its way to B.C., J-Source’s Town Hall is digging into the ethics of Olympic reporting. Canadian journalists in particular have been dogged by charges […]

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