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27 May

The Unknowable Country: Why journalists and governments no longer know what Canadians value

<p><strong>By Sean Holman</strong></p><p>As a result of a lack of federal government funding, Canada wasn't included in the most recent <a href="http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Values Survey</a>—one of the few means we have of knowing what our values are, how we differ from people in other countries and whether those values have changed over time.</p>

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9 May

J-Fest: Are journalists losing their audiences and impact on democratic society?

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8 May

What journalists and public figures can learn from the Tom Flanagan takedown

<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/Person non grata_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>Reviewed by Jamie Cameron</strong></p>

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6 May

Did the Globe buy the news or just the Rob Ford pictures?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Ford cover_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CAN_TGAM&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newseum</a></em></p><p><strong>By Ross Howard</strong></p>

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1 May

Why the Globe paid $10,000 for Rob Ford photos

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Ford cover_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CAN_TGAM&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newseum</a></em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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1 May

Globe public editor: The case for paying for Rob Ford photographs

<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_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The Globe and Mail did something that I think has not happened before, and that was to pay a source $10,000 for a series of photographs showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what was described by a drug dealer as crack cocaine. The payment was to an admitted drug dealer.</p>

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17 Apr

Briarpatch’s legal push to obtain documents through ATI requests from the Village of Pinehouse continues

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Briarpatch_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Rachel Aiello </strong></p><p>It has now been a year since former <em>Briarpatch</em> editor Valerie Zink filed two access-to-information requests with the Village of Pinehouse, and so far, the Regina magazine has only received what editor Andrew Loewen describes as a “small share” of the documents.</p>

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17 Apr

CTV Kitchener cancels Provincewide after 29 years

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Provincewide.JPG" title="" /></p><p>CTV News Kitchener is cancelling news and current affairs show <em>Provincewide</em> after 29 years on the air. The show’s host and producer, Daiene Vernile, will pursue a career in political office, according to a <a href="http://www.bellmediapr.ca/Network/CTV-News/Press/CTV-News-Kitchener-Expands-Sunday-Evening-Newscast-to-Full-Hour-Beginning-this-Weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.</p>

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16 Apr

Updated: Robyn Doolittle leaves Toronto Star for Globe

<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/Robyn Doolittle_2.JPG" title="" /><em>Toronto Star</em> City Hall reporter Robyn Doolittle is joining <em>The Globe and Mail</em> as an investigative reporter.</p><p>Doolittle is one of three journalists who has seen the infamous video of Mayor Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine and the author of <em>Crazy Town</em>, a book on Ford and his family.</p>

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9 Apr

Live blog: Does the parliamentary press gallery matter?

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson, Education Editor</strong></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="800" src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v7.aspx?Id=499904&ThemeId=16198" width="700"></iframe></p><hr /><p><strong>Related content on J-Source:</strong></p>

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