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6 Jun

Live blog of MagNet2013 Conference: Generating Publicity—The Right Way

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5 Jun

End of an era: Shocking amount of great talent leaves The Globe and Mail

<p><strong>By Dan Westell</strong></p><p>When J-Source published on May 31 the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/official-list-globe-and-mail-staff-who-took-buyouts">list</a> of 64 <em>Globe</em> employees who are taking the most recent buyout, it forced me to recognize that my history with the paper was coming to a close.</p><p>I left in 1995 for what eventually tuned into a browner pasture at the <em>National Post</em>, but the newsroom where I grew up was the <em>Globe</em>’s in the 1980s. With the buyout, a core group of my contemporaries is leaving.</p>

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3 Jun

Demand for local television news coverage still strong despite abrupt closing of CityNews Channel

<p><strong>By Ellin Bessner</strong></p><p>The abrupt closing of <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wzmR6QmJiH8J:www.rogersmedia.com/fr/node/616+citynews+channel&cd=37&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=safari">CityNews Channel</a> on May 30 came at an inopportune time for news consumers in the Greater Toronto Area, observers say, because it happened while appetite for local news coverage is stronger than usual, thanks to the continuing scandal surrounding Mayor Rob Ford and the alleged video showing him smoking crack cocaine. </p>

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2 Jun

Henry Morgentaler’s love affair with the media

<p><strong>By Catherine Dunphy</strong></p><p>In death, as in life, Dr. Henry Morgentaler was all over the news. He died Wednesday at home at 90, quietly I’m told.</p><p>That night, talking heads on The National, City TV and all the networks in between were weighing in on the extraordinary life and times of the doctor who ‘d battled all the way to the Supreme Court to decriminalize abortion.</p>

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29 May

Letter to the editor: The NNAs do in fact reflect digital journalism

<p><strong>By Scott White, Chair, Board of Governors, National Newspaper Awards</strong></p><p>Melanie Coulson’s <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-national-newspaper-awards-dont-reflect-journalism-digital-era">recent opinion piece about the National Newspaper Awards</a> raises some important issues about the relevancy of one of the country’s premier journalism awards programs as newspapers transform from print to digital platforms.</p>

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28 May

Do ethnocultural newspapers have a future in Canada?

<p><strong>By April Lindgren</strong></p><p>If you walk for three short blocks along Bloor Street in my neighbourhood, just west of downtown Toronto, you can stop in shops and restaurants and collect more than 10 different newspapers in three or four different languages.</p>

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28 May

Toronto Star publisher, Globe and Mail editor-in-chief on journalism and the Fords

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>John Stackhouse and John Cruickshank stood behind their publications' recent coverage of the Fords in an <u><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2013/05/27/standing-by-the-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on CBC's Metro Morning</a></u> on Monday.</p>

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25 May

OPINION: Video, shmideo: reporting is about telling what you see and hear

<p><strong>By Ivor Shapiro</strong></p><div><p>In the beginning was the word from Gawker. And on the second day, there came a <em>Toronto Star</em> story, and evening became morning, and then a full-blown scandal was on every front page, every newscast, and lo, the <a href="http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?videoPackage=134643">Daily Show</a> saw that it was good, or at least funny.</p>

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24 May

Why hasn’t Mayor Rob Ford sued the Toronto Star?

<p><strong>By J-Source Law editor Thomas Rose</strong></p>

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22 May

Letter to the editor: Three things that don’t stand up in Basen’s column on journalists and public relations

<p><strong>By Paul Knox</strong></p><p>Readers will make up their own minds about Ira Basen’s contention that <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-why-all-journalists-should-study-public-relations">all journalists should study public relations</a>. But here are three things in Basen’s recent J-Source piece that don’t stand up:</p>

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