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19 Feb

Rogers moves to group publisher structure

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Roger's Magazines_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Rogers Media is shaking up its management structure: instead of having a publisher for each of its 10 individual titles, the company has streamlined to having four group publishers for its consumer magazines.</p>

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19 Feb

Il n’y aura pas de bourse Fernand-Seguin cette année

<p><strong>Parce que les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) ont décidé de ne pas soutenir la bourse, et parce que l’Association des communicateurs scientifiques du Québec (ACS) n’a pas trouvé d’autres partenaires, il n’y aura pas de bourse Fernand-Seguin en journalisme scientifique cette année. Une annonce perçue comme une bien mauvaise nouvelle par nombre d’anciens lauréats. </strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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19 Feb

How to keep your emotional distance as a journalist

<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/Hospital-2_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Ishani Nath</strong></p>

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19 Feb

The Unknowable Country: What does Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index actually mean?

<p><strong>By Sean Holman</strong></p><p>Last year, the country's freedom of information commissioners <a href="http://seanholman.com/2013/10/28/the-unknowable-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a modernization of the antiquated laws that are supposed to allow, but in many cases, now frustrate journalists' access to public records.</p><p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.law-democracy.org/live/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nov-2013-Chart2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centre for Law and Democracy, 55 other nations have stronger information rights laws than we do.</p>

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19 Feb

Journalism veteran Peter Desbarats died at 80

<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/Desbarats_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Peter Desbarats, an award-winning journalist who worked with Global Television and was the former dean of the University of Western Ontario’s graduate school of journalism, died at age 80. </p>

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18 Feb

Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary accepting applications

<p>The original Gordon Sinclair Fellowship was established in 1986 after friends of the late broadcaster created the Gordon Sinclair Foundation and a university scholarship for recent journalism graduates to honour his memory. The stated purpose of the original award was to encourage a recent journalism graduate to embark on another year of study that would enrich them as journalists. The award was presented <a href="http://www.gordonsinclairfoundation.ca/fellows.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25 times in the years that followed</a>.</p>

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18 Feb

Public editor: Why the Star published secret Conservative party documents

<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/Kathy English_14.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>There was a time, not so long ago, before the dawn of the Internet era, when the secret documents of politicians and public officials arrived in newsrooms in brown envelopes sent from anonymous sources.</p>

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18 Feb

France/Québec: regards croisés sur les formations en journalisme

<p><strong>Comment apprend-on à être journaliste au Québec et en France au début du 21<sup>e</sup> siècle? Le discours sur l’avenir de la profession est-il le même de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique? Trois étudiants de l’Université Laval, deux Français et une Québécoise, se sont posé la question dans le cadre de leur cours de Journalisme et société. ProjetJ publie le compte-rendu de leur travail.</strong></p><p><em>Par Marie-Christine Aubin Côté, No Le Bihan  et Martin Veyrier, étudiants à l’Université Laval.</em></p>

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18 Feb

Globe public editor: The PM and the floating hockey stick explained

<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/Stead_12.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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18 Feb

This week in Canadian media history: Toronto’s CFRB hit the air in 1927

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CFRB_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do, Reporter</strong></p>

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