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3 Sep

Colin Horgan joins federal Liberals as a speech writer

<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/Colin Horgan_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Colin Horgan, a former Parliament Hill reporter, is joining the federal Liberals as a speech writer.</p>

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2 Sep

Globe public editor: Why Rob Ford makes balanced coverage difficult

<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/Sylvia Stead_30.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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29 Aug

Allison Jones, Maria Babbage swap beats at The Canadian Press

<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/Allison Jones.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Maria Babbage.JPG" title="" /> <em>Left: Allison Jones, Right: Maria Babbage</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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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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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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19 Aug

CBC ombudsman: Can an analyst with a partisan past provide balance?

<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 Enkin_32.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p><p>SUMMARY</p>

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18 Aug

The Tyee brings reader-funded reporter to Parliament Hill

<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/Jeremy Nuttall_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The Tyee has brought Jeremy Nuttall, a new reader-funded reporter, to Parliament Hill.</p><p>The Ottawa-based reporter is part of The Tyee’s plan to expand nationally. The Vancouver-based online publication successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign last year to raise $100,000 towards the expansion.</p>

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18 Aug

Seamus O’Regan seeks Liberal nomination

<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/Seamus O'Regan_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Former CTV journalist Seamus O’Regan is seeking the federal Liberal nomination in the Newfoundland riding of St. John's South-Mount Pearl, <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/seamus-o-regan-seeks-federal-liberal-nomination-1.1964345" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Canadian Press reported</a>.</p>

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14 Aug

Ottawa Sun columnist Susan Sherring running for city council

<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/Susan Sherring_0.JPG" title="" /><em>Ottawa Sun</em> journalist Susan Sherring is running for city council.</p><p>Sherring, who has spent several years as a city hall columnist and columnist, will run as a candidate in Gloucester-South Nepean.</p>

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