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3 Feb

New station 105.9 The Region provides local news for York Region

<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/105.9 FM The Region_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>York Region, a suburb of Toronto, has a new independent radio station that started airing local news, traffic and weather programming in December. The station, <a href="http://www.1059theregion.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">105.9 FM The Region</a>, will celebrate its official launch on Feb. 5.</p>

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3 Feb

Radio-Canada: le syndicat crie au chantage

<p><strong><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://projetj.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/logo_0.jpg" title="" />En réponse à la note interne du PDG du diffuseur public Hubert Lacroix, annonçant des «nuages sombres» et préparant les employés à des «décisions difficiles» dans les prochains mois, le Syndicat des communications dénonce l’insolence de la direction, nie les difficultés financières avancées et croit plutôt en un choix idéologique délibéré.</strong></p><p><em>Par Hélène Roulot-Ganzmann</em></p>

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3 Feb

Newfoundland and Labrador to review controversial access-to-information law

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p>Tom Marshall, interim premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has announced that three independent experts will review the province’s controversial access to information law, The Canadian Press <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/newfoundland-to-hold-independent-review-of-contentious-access-to-info-law/article16619480/#dashboard/follows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p>

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3 Feb

Why are so many journalists willing to write for free?

<p><strong>By Kathleen Kuehn</strong></p><p>Last March, an editor from <em><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Atlantic</a></em> approached freelance journalist Nate Thayer about repurposing an article he’d published elsewhere for the news magazine’s website. Unfortunately, the editor informed him, freelance funds had run out. In lieu of payment, the opportunity would offer Thayer “exposure” to <em>The</em> <em>Atlantic</em>’s 13 million monthly readers.</p>

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31 Jan

CBC ombudsman: Does an interviewee’s perspective need to be accurate?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_35.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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31 Jan

Globe public editor: Are names always needed?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_49.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The death of so many seniors at the home in L’Isle-Verte is an almost unimaginable tragedy for the entire community and, of course, all of the friends and family members of those who died or are missing.</p>

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31 Jan

Jack Webster Foundation accepting applications for professional development fellowships

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31 Jan

Amber Schinkel named co-host of Global Calgary’s Morning News Show

<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/Amber Schinkel_0.PNG" title="" /> Amber Schinkel will join Scott Fee as co-host of Global Calgary's <em>Morning News Show</em> on Feb. 3. She replaces Susanne Fox, who left the show in December to pursue a master’s in communication<em>.</em></p>

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31 Jan

The Concordian forced to issue second apology for plagiarizing from Canadian University Press

<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/Concordian_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Laurent Corbeil Bastien</strong></p><p><em>The Concordian</em>, a student newspaper at Concordia University, issued an apology after one of its news editors, Tim Weynerowski, was accused of plagiarizing an article on the Quebec government’s charter of values from the Canadian University Press (CUP).</p>

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31 Jan

Les contraintes organisationnelles et l’autonomie professionnelle des journalistes

<p><em>Note de lecture de la Chaire de recherche en éthique du journalisme de l'Université d'Ottawa</em></p><p><em>Par</em><em> Carolane Gratton, étudiante à la maîtrise en communication à l'Université d'Ottawa</em></p>

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