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18 Mar

Former Globe reporter Dawn Walton joins CTV Calgary as managing editor

<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/Dawn Walton_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Former <em>Globe and Mail</em> reporter Dawn Walton joined CTV Calgary as its managing editor on Monday. </p><p>She replaces Jeff Little, who will continue as the director of news and public affairs at the station.</p>

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18 Mar

Sun Media 24 hours vice-president Lucie Leduc leaves company

<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/Lucie Leduc_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Lucie Leduc, Sun Media’s vice-president for <em>24 hours</em> newspapers, is leaving the company.</p>

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17 Mar

Why the press can’t help but speculate about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight

<p><strong>By Craig Silverman</strong></p><p>Did you hear?</p>

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17 Mar

Canadian Press editor-in-chief Scott White joins Postmedia

<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/Scott White_3.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Scott White, who has <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/updated-editor-chief-scott-white-leaving-canadian-press">been with the Canadian Press for over three decades</a>, is joining Postmedia Network as vice-president of content strategy and business development on March 24.</p>

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17 Mar

Les journalistes multiplateformes, pieuvres humaines d’aujourd’hui

<p><em>Par Malory Lepage, Marie-Philippe Chaput et Florence Demers, étudiantes en journalisme à l’Université Laval.</em></p><p>Le journalisme multiplateforme permet au public de s’informer en tout temps et à tout endroit. Amenant l’information au-delà du support papier, les technologies accompagnent les gens au quotidien. Outre la télévision, la radio et l’ordinateur, les appareils mobiles constituent désormais des outils d’information non négligeables.</p>

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17 Mar

Memo: Scott White joining Postmedia

<p>I am pleased to announce the appointment of Scott White to the newly created position of VP, Content Strategy & Business Development.</p><p>Scott will lead the development of content strategies for native advertising and branded content across all platforms and explore new partnerships and opportunities in these content verticals.</p><p>Scott will work very closely with Functional Leaders as we ready the launch of product 2.0, ensuring that strategic content and resource initiatives are put securely in place.</p>

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17 Mar

This week in Canadian media history: Country’s first newspaper published in Halifax in 1752

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Halifax Gazette_0.JPG" title="" /></p><div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.newspaperscanada.ca/sites/default/files/images/halifaxgazette.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newspapers Canada</a></em></p></div><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p>

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14 Mar

North Shore Outlook shutting down

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Three editorial staff will be laid off with the closure of Glacier Media’s <em>North Shore Outlook</em>.</p><p>The B.C. weekly newspaper, which publishes in West Vancouver and North Vancouver, will publish its last edition on March 27, reporter Michaela Garstin told J-Source. Editor Justin Beddall and reporter Maria Spitale-Leisk will be let go, in addition to Garstin.</p>

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14 Mar

Un journaliste peut-il écrire sur une personne qu’il poursuit en justice?

<p><strong>En coll</strong><em><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Shauna Snow-Capparelli_0.PNG" title="" /></em><strong>aboration avec l’Association canadienne des journalistes (CAJ), J-Source entretient une rubrique intitulée Ask a Mentor. Son objectif? Délivrer des conseils aux journalistes et étudiants qui n’ont pas accès à un mentor.

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14 Mar

CBC ombudsman: Perception of conflict of interest over Mansbridge and Murphy speaking fees matters

<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/Esther_5.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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