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22 Sep

A hot and sweaty, down and dirty approach to political column writing

Proving political comment need not be dry, the often hilarious Heather Mallick, in the Toronto Star, imagines how Toronto will feel about “waking up” with a suddenly, incredibly, apparently landslide-bound […]

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21 Sep

Toronto Star anchor profile series

“The Toronto Star has launched a series of long profiles about Canada’s anchors, starting with Dawna Friesen and Lisa LaFlamme. Next up is Peter Mansbridge. The Star notes that LaFlamme […]

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21 Sep

Should journalists accept the Ross Munro award?

Canadian Press reporter Murray Brewster will be awarded the Ross Munro Media Award, sponsored by the Conference of Defence Associations and Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. Some journalists think […]

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21 Sep

The community media fund that never was

The CRTC had a perfect chance to strengthen local independents. It failed. By Steve Anderson and Lindsey Pinto. Last April the CRTC conducted a hearing to review a two per […]

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21 Sep

The new breed of programmer-journalists

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Craig Silverman" border="0" height="80" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Craig_Silverman.jpg" title="Craig Silverman" vspace="0" width="80" />Two U.S. J-schools are mixing computer science and journalism to create</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><span style="font-style: italic;">a new breed of programmer-journalists. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig Silverman</span> reports. </span><br />

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21 Sep

The surprising off-air lives of on-air people

The grandfatherly on-air Peter Gzowski was an act. Joan Rivers carefully crafted her sarcastic and cruel on-air persona. Former long-time CBC Radio host Andy Barrie reviews two new offerings – […]

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21 Sep

Top 10 conversations in journalism today

<p><img align="Left" alt="Reporter" border="0" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/reporter.jpg" style="width: 134px; height: 163px;" title="Reporter" />Summer's over, are you ready to talk shop and impress your peers? Yeah, that’s what we were afraid of. Our guide to the top 10 (okay, 11) conversations in journalism today is a good place to start (in no particular order).<br /><br style="font-weight: bold;" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Canwest newspapers reborn as Postmedia</span><br />

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20 Sep

Experiments in NYC J-Schools

<p>By Davis Shaver<br /><br />Universities around the country have had to shift the approach of their journalism programs to accommodate a quickly changing media landscape. New York City's journalism schools, in particular, are working to rethink their offerings and adapt to the new world.</p><p> </p>

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20 Sep

J-Source’s new Town Hall editor

J-Source welcomes our new Town Hall editor, Dale Bass. She currently works as a senior reporter with Black Press and is secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Association of Journalists. For four […]

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20 Sep

The new celebrity journalism: Norton interviews the Boss

As the last bits of TIFF-induced celebrity haze lifts from Toronto, one journalist reports that he discovered the future of celebrity journalism – in an interview with Bruce Springsteen. Journalist […]

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