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27 Aug

Mike De Souza joins Reuters

<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/Mike De Souza_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Mike De Souza will join Reuters in January as the investigative resources correspondent in Canada.</p><p>De Souza was one of five staff let go by Postmedia Network when it shut down its newswire’s parliamentary bureau earlier this year and merged the remaining staff with the political desk at the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em>.</p>

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26 Aug

Tessa Sproule to launch contrarian site Vubble

<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/Tessa Sproule_2.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Tessa Sproule, the former director of digital at CBC, is launching a new site.</p>

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26 Aug

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to shoot baseball

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p><p>Here <em>Star</em> photographer David Cooper shares his tips for shooting baseball.</p>

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25 Aug

Vancouver Observer growing with National Observer

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/National Observer_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo of the soon-to-be-launched National Observer website courtesy of Vancouver Observer</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Vancouver Observer publisher Linda Solomon plans to expand her online news platform nationally.</p>

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25 Aug

Star public editor: Disturbing images of James Foley’s beheading spark global debate

<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_41.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>When violence goes viral, when is enough enough?</p></div><div style="clear:none;"><p>How much is too much when brutal, barbaric images are widely available for publication and sharing?</p>

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25 Aug

CTV, CJFE protest arrest of journalist Tom Walters in Ferguson

<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/Tom Walters_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>CTV said the arrest of correspondent Tom Walters in Ferguson, Mo., was unwarranted and an infringement on freedom of the press.</p>

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22 Aug

Chinese media banned from Arctic trip with Stephen Harper

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Parliament Hill_1.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Caresse Ley</em></p><p><b>By The Canadian Press</b></p><p>Canada said Friday "past incidents and behaviours" are to blame for China's official news agency and the Communist Party newspaper being banned from an Arctic trip with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.</p>

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22 Aug

Ryan Hicks named CBC Quebec City political correspondent

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Ryan Hicks is the new CBC political correspondent for the National Assembly in Quebec City.</p><p>Hicks currently works for the CBC in Montreal. He has also worked for the public broadcaster in Winnipeg, Prince Edward Island and Ottawa as well as Global Television and CTV in Ottawa, according to his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhicks1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn profile</a>.</p><p> </p>

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21 Aug

Madeline Ziniak steps down as OMNI TV national VP

<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/Madeline Ziniak.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>OMNI Television’s national vice-president Madeline Ziniak has decided to step down after a 34-year career.</p><p>She will leave in October to pursue new opportunities with ethnic media, said a press release from OMNI’s parent company, Rogers Media.</p>

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21 Aug

Mohamed Fahmy will appeal sentence

<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/Mohamed Fahmy_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p>Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy will appeal his conviction on terrorism charges that placed him in an Egyptian prison for seven years. The family of the former Al-Jazeera English bureau chief announced the appeal August 20. </p>

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