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23 Oct

Globe public editor: A diverse audience and the struggle with language

<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.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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23 Oct

CBC annual meeting: How is radio changing?

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22 Oct

Book Review: Gene Allen’s Making National News cements the influential but little-known role Canadian Press played as a significant cultural force

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Making National News_0.JPG" title="" />Gene Allen | <em>Making National News: A History of Canadian Press</em> | University of Toronto Press | Paperback: $34.95</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Catherine McKercher</strong></p>

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21 Oct

Health Journalism: Balanced but Broken

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21 Oct

Mathew Ingram: Online Journalism: What’s different? What’s the same?

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21 Oct

Opinion: Community newspapers do more than fluffy, “happy news” stories

<p><strong>By Dale Bass</strong></p><p>In recent weeks, I've listened to an editor at a daily newspaper talk about how the industry is not thriving and that journalism students might have to start out their careers in small locales working for community newspapers.</p><p>If they're lucky, this editor continued, they might get to work at a small daily at some point in their careers.</p>

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21 Oct

Ward’s Words: Putting transparency in its place

<p><strong>By Stephen Ward</strong></p><p>Transparency, according to optimistic accounts, is the answer to bad government and wrong doing by corporations and news media. Let the “sunshine” of transparency enter the public domain and watch these evil forces retreat.</p><p>Transparency—monitoring how agencies operate—goes back to the trumpeting of “publicity” as a check on secretive government in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.</p>

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19 Oct

CBC ombudsman: No bias in Zimmerman trial headline

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19 Oct

Star public editor: Star need not take all responsibility for perception gap

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of <em>The Toronto Star</em></strong></p>

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19 Oct

Globe public editor: The Fords, the facts and the use of anonymous sources

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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