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14 Jan

Star’s DiManno responds to “uncivil” comments, gets warnings from management

Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno says online and email comments received from readers are “often corrosively uncivilized and deliberately baiting.” And she admits rising to the bait because she  doesn’t […]

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14 Jan

New Toronto online mag focuses on positive news

A new Toronto-focused online magazine aims to focus on positive news in Canada’s biggest city. Yonge Street, a weekly online mag, is the first Canadian publication from a Detroit-based company […]

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13 Jan

UBC j-school teams with investigative journalism project

The University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has become the first journalism school in Canada to sign on with DocumentCloud, a new project that aims to index and […]

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13 Jan

Words to kick to the curb in 2010

Great words and phrases have a way of quickly becoming overused, misused and all-around annoying. Particularly irked by this is Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, which […]

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13 Jan

National Magazine Awards entry deadline approaching

The National Magazine Awards Foundation is accepting entries for this year’s awards. The deadline for entries is Jan. 15 and “entries must be submitted online and followed by tear sheets […]

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13 Jan

Is it worth it?

The death of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang on patrol with Canadian troops in Afghanistan has produced an outpouring of sympathy from across the Canadian journalism community – not least […]

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13 Jan

CAJ announces keynote speaker for January conference

Bill Buxton, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will give the keynote speech at the Canadian Association of Journalists upcoming one-day conference on Jan. 30. According to a CAJ announcement, […]

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12 Jan

Journalism’s “mandatory potlatch”

John Tierney ponders the key question, imo, of the past decade: “When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs?” Tierney’s New York Times piece today […]

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12 Jan

The Beaver mag gets a name change

The 90-year old magazine, The Beaver: Canada’s History Magazine is changing its name to avoid “a variety of misunderstandings,” CBC News reports. Beginning in April, the mag will be called […]

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12 Jan

If you don’t enter, you can’t win

It’s awards season and there are a ton of opportunities out there for journalists to enter and win awards. Deadlines are fast approaching so check out the J-Source Awards section […]

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