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13 Aug

CBC lays off veteran sportscasters Steve Armitage and Mark Lee

<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/Steve Armitage.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Mark Lee_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Laura Kane, for The Canadian Press</strong></p><p>Veteran sportscasters Steve Armitage and Mark Lee are the latest high-profile casualties of budget cuts at the CBC.</p>

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12 Aug

Jeremy Agius leaves Canadian Press for Globe

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p> Jeremy Agius is leaving The Canadian Press after 13 years to join <em>The Globe and Mail</em>.</p><p>Agius, a graphic artist and interactive designer for The Canadian Press’ multimedia desk, will become an interactive editor at the <em>Globe</em>. He will join the new mobile and interactive unit headed by senior editor Matt Frehner.</p>

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12 Aug

Kevin O’Leary leaves CBC’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange

<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/Kevin O'Leary_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Kevin O’Leary is leaving CBC’s <em>The Lang & O'Leary Exchange</em> to become an on-air contributor for Bell Media.</p><p>O’Leary, who co-hosted the show with Amanda Lang since 2009, will join Bell Media on Sept. 1.</p>

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11 Aug

Newfoundland Herald apologizes for anti-gay letter

<p><strong>By Grant Buckler</strong></p><p><strong>Updated August 14</strong></p>

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11 Aug

Trends in journalism education in Canada: What’s being added?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/University class_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</em></p>

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11 Aug

Chris Windeyer leaves Up Here Business

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Managing editor Chris Windeyer left <em>Up Here Business</em> to pursue a freelancing career in Dawson City, Yukon. His last day with the independent northern magazine was Aug. 8.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>I’ve had a lot of fun working for this magazine, and I’m grateful to everyone who read our stuff and talked to me over the last three years.</p>

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8 Aug

Grant Ellis named general manager of BNN

<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/Grant Ellis_2.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Grant Ellis is the new general manager of BNN.</p><p>Ellis, who joined BNN after seven years at the <em>Financial Post, </em>will be responsible for day-to-day operations and strategic vision of the business channel owned by Bell Media. He will report to Wendy Freeman, president of CTV News.</p>

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7 Aug

Canadian magazine sales down 4.8% in first half of 2014

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Magazine_11.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Illustration courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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6 Aug

Gazette announces team for four-platform strategy

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Montreal Gazette_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Illustration courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Montreal’s <em>The Gazette </em>has named four producers and four deputies to support the newsroom as it moves to Postmedia’s four-platform strategy.</p>

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5 Aug

Canada Wide Media axes BCLiving’s Chinese edition

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Canada Wide Media has pulled the plug on the Chinese edition of <em>BCLiving</em> less than a year after the magazine’s launch.</p><p>Industry watchers were cautiously optimistic when Canada Wide expanded <em>BCLiving</em> with two print editions last November—an English version published 10 times a year and a Chinese quarterly—targeting women ages 34 to 45.</p>

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