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18 Jun

Canadian Media Guild details where cuts at CBC will happen

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CBC Edmonton_0.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Alex Midgal</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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10 Jun

Updated: Canadian Family cancels print edition; lays off 7 staff

<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/Canadian Family_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><em>Canadian Family</em> magazine is going all-digital and cancelling its print edition. It also laid off seven staff including editor-in-chief Brandie Weikle.  </p><p>Its parent company, St. Joseph Communications, announced the parenting magazine will cease distributing hard copies after its summer issue.</p>

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28 May

Transcontinental told to sell 34 newspapers in Quebec

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The Competition Bureau told Transcontinental it must put 34 weekly community newspapers up for sale to maintain healthy competition for advertising sales in local Quebec markets.</p><p>The condition is part of a larger deal approved by the Competition Bureau in which Transcontinental agreed to buy 74 papers from its rival Quebecor last year.</p>

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21 May

What’s the impact of all this data mining on the quality of journalism?

<p><strong>By Ira Basen, Future of News Editor</strong></p><p>What would you think if you knew that someone was monitoring how long it was taking you to read a story on your favourite website? And those same people also knew what device you were reading it on, what route you took to get to that page and how often you’d been there before.</p>

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20 May

Publishers: New BC recycling legislation could result $10 million loss for newspapers

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/recycling box_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>BC’s newspaper industry says it is facing a catastrophic threat as the province gets ready to launch a new environmental program that will shift the cost of recycling from municipal governments to companies that produce the recyclables. </p>

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7 May

Updated: Union holds byline strike at Toronto Star

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Byline strike.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CAN_TS&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newseum</a></em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> newsroom is staging a byline strike to protest what it’s calling a two-tiered pay scale.</p>

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5 May

Postmedia outsources print production of Montreal’s The Gazette

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Printing Press wide shot.JPG" title="" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="docs-internal-guid-6df9f0d4-cd8e-eedf-fed1-86af65d85ba6">The Regina Leader-Post is printed in-house by Postmedia Network. Photo courtesy of Evan Radford.  </span></em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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5 May

CBC memo on future of public broadcaster

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CBC Vancouver building_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Matt Meuse</em></p><p><strong>Here is the CBC memo from president Hubert Lacroix on the future of the public broadaster post-budget cuts. </strong></p><p>Hi,</p>

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29 Apr

Why j-schools should foster entrepreneurship

<p><strong>By Julie Ireton</strong></p><p>No one has to tell new and recent journalism school grads it’s a tight job market. Many are going from internships to freelance to contract jobs in an attempt to fulfill a burning desire to stay in journalism. But more often than not, it’s actually waiting tables or bartending that pays the bills.</p><p>These 20-somethings want more—but believe it or not, they don’t necessarily want a mainstream media gig.</p>

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22 Apr

Patricia Graham named first ombudswoman for Brunswick News

<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/Patricia Graham_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Patricia Graham, former editor-in-chief of the <em>Vancouver Sun</em> and vice-president of digital at Pacific Newspaper Group, is the new ombudswoman of Irving-owned Brunswick News.</p>

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