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13 Aug

Canadian Press partners with crowdsourced platform Newzulu

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Canadian Press_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Caresse Ley</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The Canadian Press (CP) is partnering with Newzulu, a user-generated content aggregator, to provide crowdsourced, verified photo content.</p>

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29 Jul

How media organizations are bringing news to your wristwatch

<p><strong>By Robert Washburn, Innovation Editor</strong></p><p>As news organizations move more towards a mobile-first strategy, the introduction of wearable technology is presenting a new challenge despite a less than enthusiastic embrace from consumers.</p>

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9 Jun

College of the North Atlantic develops drone journalism code of conduct

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Drone class.JPG" title="" /></p><p align="center"><em>Photos courtesy of Stephen Winsor/CNA journalism</em></p><p><strong>By Jeff Ducharme</strong></p><p>Journalism is often slow to adopt new technologies, but if we are to survive and thrive, then we must embrace new technologies. And as journalism educators, we have to be ahead of the trends, not playing catch up.</p>

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4 Jun

Reliving D-Day

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/D-Day_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of CBC</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Imagine if you could go back to a pivotal moment in history and cover it with the technology of today. That is the concept behind CBC’s ambitious project D-Day Live, which will be rolled out June 5 and June 6 to mark the 70<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Allied troops landing in Normandy.</p>

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12 May

Should media outlets tell readers the news was created by robots?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/robot tech.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Matt Sutton</strong></p><p>A news-writing robot created by <a href="http://automatedinsights.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Automated Insights</a> is estimated to “write” one billion stories in 2014.</p>

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22 Apr

Chronicle Herald tries hyperlocal news with launch of new Cape Breton paper

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Chronicle Herald building 1_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Ariane Hanlon</em></p><p><strong>By Robert Washburn, Innovation Editor</strong></p><p>Mark Lever gets it. The <em>Chronicle Herald</em> also gets it.</p>

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21 Mar

Live blog: Why journalists need to think like startups

<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="800" src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v7.aspx?Id=498832&ThemeId=16198" width="700"></iframe></p>

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11 Mar

Why Langara College is teaching its journalism students how to use drones

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Drone final_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Langara College journalism student Tyler Hooper</em></p><p><strong>By Ethan Baron</strong></p><p>It swoops, it soars, it hovers, it rips up the sky like a bat out of hell. But best of all, it shoots high-resolution imagery from the air.</p>

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10 Mar

Toronto Star builds technology to post professional camera photos instantly on live blogs

<p><strong>By Mark Taylor, Photojournalism Editor</strong></p><p>Imagine a gadget that attaches to a professional DSLR camera and sends photos directly to a live blog, almost as fast as you can snap them. Taras Slawnych did—and then he built one. Slawnych, visuals editor at the <em>Toronto Star</em>, is still tinkering with his game-changing gizmo. But <em>Star</em> photographers are already using a prototype in the field, one of which zapped pictures from the Olympics in Sochi to Toronto in record time.</p>

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13 Dec

The future of community journalism spells economic survival of rural communities

<p><em>When a community newspaper closes, it is a great loss. Still, publishers will argue it is the economic reality of the times. Many scholars argue the importance of community journalism to democracy and citizenship, often separately from the business decisions. The historic tension between public service and economics is longstanding. But, what if there is another set of lenses beyond journalism, political economy, communications theory and other traditional disciplines to shed light on the significance of news media in rural Canada?

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