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13 Mar

Global BC anchor Deb Hope retiring

<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/Deb Hope_0.JPG" title="" /> Global BC anchor Deb Hope is retiring after more than three decades as a journalist.</p>

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13 Mar

Sun Media restructuring, sale of Quebec weeklies will yield $67 million in savings for Quebecor

<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/Sun Media newspapers_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Quebecor is expected to yield $67 million in savings in 2014 from the restructuring at Sun Media and the sale of its Quebec weekly newspapers last year.</p>

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12 Mar

Take the J-Source survey on Canadian television journalists

<p>Are you a Canadian television journalist?</p><p>J-Source request two minutes of your time to fill out a short survey. The goal of the survey is to get a sense of the age, gender and ethnicity of Canadian television broadcasters who appear on-air. The results of this survey will be data mapped and appear on J-Source later this spring.</p><p>For a previous example of our data projects, please take a look at our <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/surprised-canadian-newspaper-columnists-are-mostly-male-middle-aged">survey of Canadian news columnists</a>.</p>

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12 Mar

Toronto Star journalist Marco Oved wins James Travers fellowship

<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/Marco Oved_0.JPG" title="" /> <em>Toronto Star</em> journalist Marco Oved was awarded the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship.</p><p>Oved will receive $25,000 and use the funds to travel to Ghana, Burkina Faso and Peru to report on development projects funded by Canadian mining companies operating in those countries. His work will be published in the <em>Star</em> in the coming months.</p>

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12 Mar

Calgary Board of Education trustees apologize to Metro reporter Jeremy Nolais

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Metro Calgary.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Six Calgary Board of Education trustees apologized to <em>Metro Calgary</em> reporter Jeremy Nolais for “inappropriate” and “unacceptable” comments they made during a heated conference call.</p>

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12 Mar

Maclean’s website gets responsive design makeover

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Maclean's new_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>The redesigned Maclean's website. All photos courtesy of Rogers Media</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Maclean’s</em> redesigned website has a new tile-based responsive design.</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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11 Mar

Toronto Star Master Glass: How to shoot interesting angles

<p>In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, <em>Toronto Star</em> photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.</p>

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11 Mar

Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald reporters win Canadian Hillman Prize

<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/EJ Fatal Care_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p>Journalists Karen Kleiss, of the <em>Edmonton Journal,</em> and Darcy Henton, of the <em>Calgary Herald,</em> have won the 2014 <a href="http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hillman-prize/2014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian Hillman Prize</a> for their investigation into the deaths of children while in provincial foster care in Alberta.</p>

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11 Mar

Updated: Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa killed in Syria

<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/Mustafa_0.JPG" title="" />Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa was killed in Syria on Sunday.</p>

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