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1 May

Canadians want transparent media AI policy, poll says

TORONTO, May 1, 2023 /CNW/ – A strong majority of Canadians (92%) believe that news organizations should have clear and transparent policies on how they use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to produce news […]

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1 May

CJF and Maru Public Opinion: Canadians want transparent media AI policy, poll says

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7 Apr

4.1 PR professionals for every journalist in Canada

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Sara MacIntyre_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>B.C. Premier Christy Clark's director of communications Sara MacIntyre told reporters they could not talk to the premier at a photo op in 2012. Screen grab taken from CTV footage. </em></p><p><strong>By Ira Basen, Future of News editor</strong></p>

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4 Apr

The Golden Age of Journalism? You’ve got to be kidding!

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Newsroom_2.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</em></p><p><strong>By Paul Benedetti and James R. Compton</strong></p>

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16 Oct

Opinion: Why the Globe might not want to target an elite audience

<p><strong>By Ira Basen, Future of News editor</strong></p><p>George Brown, who founded<em> The</em> <em>Globe and Mail </em>newspaper in 1844, was no friend of the masses. </p><p>He was distrustful of American-style direct democracy and deeply hostile to unions. When printers went on strike against his newspaper in 1872 in support of a nine-hour day, Brown was outraged. “It is utterly ridiculous to talk of the rapacity and despotism of the employer,” he fumed. “The tyranny of the employed over his master would be an infinitely truer version of the case.”</p>

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15 Oct

Live blog: The changing relationship between journalism, brands and storytelling

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10 Oct

Live blog: Tom Rosenstiel on the future of news

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23 Sep

Live Blog: Disruption in the newsroom

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11 Sep

Back to school: What if you don’t land a job in a newsroom? There’s still hope (and it’s not just PR)

<p><strong>By Vanessa Santilli</strong></p><p>Mick Côté experiments with a wide variety of storytelling techniques in his job as a multimedia content producer for the Montreal-based startup Spundge.</p><p>“We started something fairly new called live curation,” said Côté, a journalism grad with both a bachelor and a master’s degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax. “Instead of live blogging, it’s curating live events, so you archive things that other people are saying.”</p>

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16 Aug

Paywalls are more prevalent in Canada than in U.S. and U.K.

<p><strong>By Kelly Toughill, J-Source Business of Journalism editor</strong></p><p>Canadian newspapers are leading the world in charging for online news, moving to digital subscriptions much faster than papers in the United States or Europe.</p>

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