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29 Jan

UTSC study shows magazines targeting specific audiences more likely to attract advertising dollars

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14 Jan

Surprised? Canadian newspaper columnists are mostly male, middle-aged

<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/General newspapers_0.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Dylan C. Robertson</strong></p><p>Canada’s newspaper columnists are mostly male and mostly middle-aged, according to a J-Source survey of 339 columnists.</p>

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29 Nov

Diversity of media ownership literally non-existent in Canada

<p><strong>By Paul Fontaine</strong></p><p>Diversity of media ownership is literally non-existent in Canada, according to a <a href="http://www.cmcrp.org/2013/11/04/growth-and-concentration-trends-in-the-english-language-network-media-economy-in-canada-2000-2012/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent post</a> by the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project (CMCRP).</p>

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22 Nov

American report on press freedom has implications for Canadian journalists

<p><strong>By Angela MacKenzie</strong><br /><br />A new report, <em><a href="http://www.freepress.net/resource/105079/acts-journalism-defining-press-freedom-digital-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acts of Journalism—Defining Press Freedom in the Digital Age</a>,</em> stresses that the U.S. needs new policies to protect all acts of journalism committed by professional and citizen journalists.</p>

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19 Nov

Call for papers on unpaid internships

<p>The debate about unpaid internships in Canada is raging, fuelled by stories such as <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/intern-s-death-after-overnight-shift-sparks-outcry-1.1704532" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andy Ferguson’s tragic death</a>, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/19/unpaid_interns_mp_andrew_cash_to_table_private_members_bill_targeting_illegal_internships.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cash’s private member’s bill targeting unpaid internships</a>, backlash from underemployed, indebted youth who can no longer work for free and the formation

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28 Oct

New book examines the links between media representations of Arab-Canadians and state policy

<p><strong>By Paul Fontaine</strong></p>

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5 Sep

JHR study shows aboriginal issues get less than 1 per cent of Ontario media coverage

<p>A new <a href="http://www.jhr.ca/en/aboutjhr/downloads/publications/buried_voices.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journalists for Human Rights study</a> shows that aboriginal issues are barely on the radar of most Ontario media outlets.</p>

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22 Aug

Best practices for live chats

<p><strong>By Monique Beech, national community manager for Sun Media </strong></p><p>It’s a dreaded fear among us digital types who try to engage readers by doing live events or live chats on our websites: The fear that NOBODY will ask a question or make a comment. I’ll admit there have been a few times that I’ve filled an hour virtually talking to myself, rambling on (live blog style) and adding videos and polls in a desperate attempt to fill the time. As a colleague of mine would say, CRICKETS, is the worst.</p>

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15 Jul

How drones have been used in journalism and the potential for future use

<p><em>In April of 2013, Alexandra Gibb defended a master’s thesis for the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC on a particularly timely topic — the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, for journalistic purposes. Gibb, currently a CBC News Vancouver Scholar, considers defence and security reporting her specialty, and came to the topic of drone journalism through her longstanding interest in the use of drones for defence purposes.

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13 Jul

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence in health policy

<p><strong>By Ernest Hoffman</strong></p>

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