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24 Apr

Reporting on terror: CBC’s David Common on covering the Boston bombing

<p><em><strong>David Common</strong> was CBC</em><em>'s lead reporter on the ground in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and during an unprecedented search for the two suspects. Here in J-Source, he shares his experience following this breaking story that gripped the world.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/commoninwatertown.JPG" title="" /></p>

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16 Apr

Why Global’s Mark McAllister broadcast his own story of epilepsy

<p><em>Journalists tell stories every day, but what happens when a journalist becomes the story? Here in J-source, Global Toronto's <strong>Mark McAllister</strong> describes the events leading up to his much publicized on-air seizure; how he dealt with the media scrutiny that followed; and why a medical condition doesn't stop a reporter from being a reporter.</em></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="377" src="http://globalnews.ca/video/embed/412316/" width="670"></iframe></p><p><em>*Video courtesy of Global News</em></p>

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10 Apr

The story behind CBC’s offshore “tax havens” series

<p><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By the office of CBC's general manager and editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire </strong></span></p><p>Every exclusive news story has a back-story of its own, the tale of "how we got that story". CBC News broke a major exclusive last week. It led our news reports on radio, television and cbcnews.ca and it became a national talking point, chased by other news organizations.</p>

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2 Apr

Honour among thieves: Putting the story before your ego

<p><em>What's more important: exclusivity or a great story? A new model of cooperative journalism being developed at the Toronto Star is helping to break news, and the traditional practice of keeping information from competitors. Here in J-source, Star investigative reporter <strong>Robert Cribb</strong> explains how sharing resources led to better journalism in a series on Canadian child sex tourists.</em></p>

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20 Mar

Exposing Canada’s back door: How a King’s journalism class got an NNA nomination for their investigation into P.E.I’s cash-for-residency immigration policy

<p><em>J-Source goes behind the story of the National Newspaper Award-nominated story <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/09/pei-immigrant-provincial-nominee-program_n_1499502.html">“Cashing In: Inside PEI’s Controversial Immigrant Partner Programs.”</a> Laura Armstrong, a graduate of University of King’s College journalism program and deputy editor for “Cashing In,” explains how their student investigative workshop exposed the inner workings of the province's immigration program.</em></p>

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5 Mar

Are journalists shitbags? (Or, how to avoid sensationalism)

<p><em><strong>Renee Wilson </strong>was surprised to hear someone describe journalists as "shitbags" at a recent conference, and grew concerned when that statement was backed up with plenty of examples of subpar shock journalism being passed off as news. Here in J-Source, she explores a solution for sensationalism: "genuine conversation."</em></p><p> </p>

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9 Jan

There is ‘no such thing as an uninteresting or insignificant life’ – excerpt from Sandra Martin’s Working the Dead Beat

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8 Jan

Checking your bias

<p><em>Do your biases affect your journalism? Field Notes Editor <strong>Nicole Blanchett Neheli</strong> talks with American J-prof Sue Ellen Christian, and reporters from across Canada, about strategies to ensure every story is as balanced as possible, and how reflection and ethics are the keys to objective reporting.</em></p><p> </p><p>Everyone has biases. But if you’re a journalist, bias can potentially affect how other people interpret important events and see the subjects you interview.</p>

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30 Nov

Covering the U.S. election through expat eyes: The Globe and Mail’s citizen journalism project

<p><strong>By Chris Hannay, <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/citizen-journalism-across-the-49th-parallel-how-the-globe-and-mail-used-expats-to-cover-the-u-s-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for The Nieman Lab</a></strong></p><p>Politics in the United States is, for a lot of Canadians, a kind of spectator sport. Our border is so porous that most Canadians have some kind of link to the United States, whether we go there for work, school, or love, or just have a family member that has.</p>

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20 Nov

#NMPS2012: Public spheres, public spaces and “shit storms”

<p><em>For journalists in particular, understanding the impact of what we say and do on the Internet is now an essential skill. But is it even possible to predict reaction to an offhand comment or in-depth story, or determine how much of an event is reflected in the social media swarm that takes over stories like the uprising in Egypt? That type of online discourse was the focus of the New Media and the Public Sphere conference in Copenhagen. Field Notes editor <strong>Nicole Blanchett Neheli </strong>was there, and captures the dialogue here for J-Source.</em></p>

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