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21 Mar

Book Review: Duffy is a well-crafted take on the journalist-turned-senator’s rise and fall

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Duffy_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>Reviewed by Mark Bourrie</strong></p>

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21 Mar

UPPERCASE named Magazine of the Year at Alberta Magazines Showcase Awards

<p><em>UPPERCASE</em> was named the magazine of the year at the Alberta Magazines Showcase Awards. The five-year-old, Calgary-based magazine’s publisher and editor, Janine Vangool, also won the editor of the year award.</p><p><em>Glass Buffalo</em>, a creative writing magazine showcasing University of Alberta student and alumni work, won the best new magazine award.</p><p>For a complete list of winners, please go to <a href="http://www.albertamagazines.com/awards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.albertamagazines.com/awards</a>. </p>

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21 Mar

Peter Bregg the first photojournalist to win CJF lifetime achievement award

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Peter Bregg.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Canadian Journalism Foundation</em></p><p>Peter Bregg is the first photojournalist to win the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s lifetime achievement award.</p>

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21 Mar

Ce que j’ai appris de mon stage chez Yahoo durant les Jeux olympiques

<p><strong>À l’école, le A est une bonne note. À l’intérieur d’une salle de nouvelles, c’est le standard. Là réside la grande différence entre ces deux mondes.</strong></p><p><em>Par Alex Chippin, stagiaire à la rédaction de Yahoo dans le cadre de sa dernière année de baccalauréat en journalisme à l’Université Ryerson.</em> <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/what-i-learned-during-my-olympics-internship-yahoo"><em>Article initialement paru sur J-Source le 10 mars 2014.</em></a></p>

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20 Mar

Editor-in-chief Steve Meurice leaves the National Post

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Steve Meurice_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>National Post</em> editor-in-chief Steve Meurice is leaving the company, effective Thursday, after 17 years with the newspaper.</p><p>In a memo, Gerry Nott, senior vice-president for the eastern region of Postmedia Network, said he will assume the editor-in-chief role until a permanent replacement is named.</p>

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20 Mar

Memo: Editor-in-chief Steve Meurice leaves National Post

<p>National Post editor Steve Meurice is leaving the company, effective today. With his departure, we have lost a terrific editor, friend and colleague.</p><p>In his 17 years here, Steve has provided superior editorial leadership through often difficult times and helped make the National Post and Financial Post essential reads in print and digitally.</p><p>Please join me in thanking him and wishing him well in his next endeavour.</p><p>In the interim, I will act as editor of the Post until a permanent replacement is named.</p><p>A town hall will be held in the Post newsroom at 3:05 today.</p>

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20 Mar

RTDNA national conference scheduled for June

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/RTDNA_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p> </p><p>National Conference 2014</p><p><strong>June 5-7, 2014 • Toronto, Ontario</strong></p><p>Electronic journalism has come a long way since the 1900s.</p>

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20 Mar

CJFE calls for donations in support of annual Review of Free Expression in Canada

<p>Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is calling for donations in support of its fifth annual <em>Review of Free Expression in Canada</em>.</p>

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20 Mar

Couverture du printemps érable: trop d’opinion, pas assez d’analyse

<p><strong>Deux ans après la mobilisation étudiante contre la hausse des droits de scolarité, et alors que les recteurs dénoncent le peu de place accordée au thème de l’éducation dans la campagne électorale, le Centre d’études sur les médias (CEM) de l’Université Laval publie un rapport sur la couverture journalistique du printemps érable. Pas de partialité de la part des journalistes concluent ses auteurs. Mais trop de nouvelles et pas assez d’analyse.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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19 Mar

Winnipeg Free Press hiring data journalism intern

<p><strong>Winnipeg Free Press summer digital interactive internship</strong></p><p>The Free Press is looking for a web-savvy journalism intern to use data to tell stories on winnipegfreepress.com.</p><p>This intern will collaborate with reporters, editors and developers to help create data visualizations, interactives, infographics and multimedia experiences on our apps and websites, as well as gain experience in journalism production on all our platforms.</p>

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