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1 May

CBC ombudsman: Be careful what you claim from a scientific study

<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/Esther_9.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombdudsman</strong></p>

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29 Apr

Why j-schools should foster entrepreneurship

<p><strong>By Julie Ireton</strong></p><p>No one has to tell new and recent journalism school grads it’s a tight job market. Many are going from internships to freelance to contract jobs in an attempt to fulfill a burning desire to stay in journalism. But more often than not, it’s actually waiting tables or bartending that pays the bills.</p><p>These 20-somethings want more—but believe it or not, they don’t necessarily want a mainstream media gig.</p>

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29 Apr

Globe public editor: When the spoiler alert becomes pointless

<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/Sylvia Stead_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>There was a brief flurry on Twitter and also an e-mail to me about a spoiler (spoiling?) headline and photograph with a <em>Game of Thrones</em> story.</p>

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28 Apr

Public editor: Star readers don’t want profanity spelled out

<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/Kathy English_0.PNG" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>“Call me old-fashioned but I don’t want to see foul language printed in full in news media,” wrote reader Barbara Dietrich.</p>

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28 Apr

Book Review: Killer Weed argues the news media have stoked “grow-op mania”

<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/KillerWeed_1.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>Reviewed by Ian Mulgrew</strong></p><p>The 1930s film <em>Reefer Madness</em> laughably epitomized the excesses of marijuana prohibitionist propaganda in the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</p>

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23 Apr

Has social media finally killed the press release?

<p><strong>By <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/chogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Hogg</a></strong></p><p>If a press release were to fall in the forest, would anyone hear it? <a href="http://digitaljournal.com/article/280710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">That’s a question I’ve asked publicly for many years</a>, and I’ve long believed social media would be a significantly disruptive force to public relations and press releases.</p>

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23 Apr

The market devaluation of digital journalism at Toronto Star

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Toronto Star -2_4.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Eric Mark Do</em></p><p><strong>By Wayne MacPhail, for rabble.ca </strong></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 Apr

CBC ombudsman: Headline fair on fake prescription story

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_45.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p><p>The complainant, Gerald Parker, strongly objected to a headline on a brief news story about a Windsor area man pretending to be a doctor trying to sell a prescription for medical marijuana. He thought it was unfair to people seeking relief from medical marijuana. I found the opposite.</p><p>COMPLAINT</p>

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21 Apr

Globe public editor: Not a day for a bland headline

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_81.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>There was a letter to the editor in <em>The Globe and Mail</em> recently from a reader who felt the “PQ crushed” main headline from the front page “smacked of a tabloid.” The reader called it un-Canadian, scornful and narrow-minded.</p>

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