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29 Jul

TheScore lays off six features staff

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/TheScore app.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Screen grab of TheScore's app</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>TheScore has laid off six staff members.</p><p>The Toronto-based company, which offers a Facebook-style feed of sports news and game data in its mobile app, said these changes are the result of a strategic change rather than financial hardship.</p>

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29 Jul

Peggy Curran named new city editor of The Gazette

<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/Peggy Curran_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Peggy Curran is the new city editor of Montreal’s <em>The Gazette</em>.</p><p>Curran, who is a features columnist, will replace Michelle Richardson who was recently promoted to managing editor of the Montreal newspaper, tweeted media blogger and <em>Gazette</em> copy editor Steve Faguy.</p>

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29 Jul

Ashley Csanady joins Canada.com as news editor

<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/Ashley Csanady_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Ashley Csanady is joining Canada.com as a news editor based in Toronto.</p><p>Csanady was a reporter with Queen’s Park Briefing—an e-newsletter distributed when the Ontario legislature is in session—for the past two years.</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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28 Jul

Scott Stinson named Postmedia national sports columnist

<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/Scott Stinson_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Scott Stinson is the new national sports columnist for Postmedia Network.</p><p>Stinson, who currently covers news, arts and sports as a columnist for the <em>National Post</em>, will begin his new position on Aug. 18, senior vice-president of content Lou Clancy said in a memo.</p>

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28 Jul

Media tweeting from courtroom impresses Nova Scotia top judge

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Twitter homepage_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Michelle-Andrea Girouard</em></p><p><strong>By Geordan Omand, for the Canadian Press</strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>A top judge in Nova Scotia says he is surprised at the positive impact live-tweeting inside the courtroom has had after the province’s judiciary recently relaxed the rules on the use of Twitter in the courts.</p>

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28 Jul

How are Canadian news organizations protecting their sources online?

<p><strong>By Pierre Chauvin</strong></p><p>As the author of three books about the Mafia, <em>National Post </em>reporter Adrian Humphreys understands the importance of protecting confidential sources and how to go about doing so. He considers himself “a master of old-school security and protection.”</p><p>But it wasn’t until he was working on a feature about a former U.S. soldier seeking asylum in Canada, claiming he was tortured by the FBI, that Humphreys realized he wasn’t up to speed with how to protect his sources online.</p>

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25 Jul

Media go to court for access to Omar Khadr

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Omar Khadr_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of Canadian Press</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The CBC, <em>Toronto Star</em> and documentary producer White Pine Pictures are taking the federal government to court to ask that Omar Khadr be allowed to be interviewed by the media.</p>

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25 Jul

Cara Fullerton leaving Global Calgary

<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/Cara Fullerton_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor </strong></p><p>Global Calgary anchor and reporter Cara Fullerton is leaving the broadcast industry after 14 years to pursue a career in health and fitness. </p>

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24 Jul

Star reporter Rick Westhead joins TSN

<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/Rick Westhead_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Toronto Star</em>’s foreign affairs reporter Rick Westhead is leaving the newspaper to join TSN as the network’s senior correspondent.</p>

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