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2 Feb

On the ground in Haiti: “It’s dangerous to divorce myself from the human aspect”

After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, seeing and smelling dead bodies and telling endless tragic stories with words and images, Montreal Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery and […]

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2 Feb

VIDEO: Interview with CHEK news director Rob Germain

Employees who rescued a local TV station in Victoria won the first J-Source Journalism Integrity Award. J-Source editor-in-chief Janice Neil asked CHEK news director Rob Germain about the employee takeover […]

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2 Feb

On the ground in Haiti: “It’s dangerous to divorce myself from the human aspect”

While seeing and smelling dead bodies and working amid the destruction, Gazette photojournalist Phil Carpenter reminded himself at all times that his photo subjects are people first. (Read Sue Montgomery’s […]

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2 Feb

On the ground in Haiti: “I set down my pen and notepad and helped”

After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, running from a shaking embassy and telling endless tragic stories, Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery considers her two weeks in Haiti […]

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2 Feb

The real “climategate” scandal isn’t scientific, it’s journalistic

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Chris Wood" border="0" hspace="8" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/CWoodHedshot.jpg" style="width: 55px; height: 75px;" title="Chris Wood" />During "climategate" some of the declarations made under prominent bylines demonstrated professional negligence, writes </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Chris Wood</span><span style="font-style: italic;">, who thinks reporters concealed the truth and practised dishonest journalism.</span><br />

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1 Feb

Don’t write about me just because I’m disabled

When reporters can’t see past a person’s disability, Lisa Coriale writes, they can miss the real story. There’s more than one storyline to write about people with disabilities. According to […]

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1 Feb

Two Montreal radio stations close

Two Montreal AM stations, AM Info690 Montréal and AM940 Montreal’s Greatest Hits, were shut down on January 29, Corus Entertainment Inc. has announced. A Canwest News Service article titled “Canada’s […]

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1 Feb

Ottawa releases pictures of data to ATI requesters

Journalists have been making requests for electronic data to federal departments for a good decade and a half. And while the fights have sometimes been long, such as the CBC’s battle […]

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1 Feb

Salinger and the F-bomb

I don’t know what it is, but there’s always the tendency in young journalism students to relish the opportunity to curse in their writing. I suspect it has something to […]

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1 Feb

J-schoolers take their know-how and get out of the classroom

Journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario have collaborated and put their course work out there into the real world, publishing an online, multimedia series on […]

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