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5 Mar

Greatest Hits: Canadian journalists share scanner stories

<p>News of the possible closure of the Star's radio room program sparked a slew of memories for Canadian journalists, many of whom spent countless hours with one ear on the scanner. <strong>Steve Ladurantaye</strong> rounded up some of their best stories.</p><p>See also:</p>

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1 Mar

When journalists are appointed to government

<p>For a former journalist, Senator Mike Duffy should have expected the hard-line questions reporters have thrown him about his housing allowance expenses, several columnists have said recently.</p>

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28 Feb

Parenting columnist leaves Toronto Star over disagreement on freelance contract rights

<p><a href="http://www.writers.ca/index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&userid=230">Ann Douglas</a>, a freelancer who writes a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/authors.douglas_ann.html"><em>Toronto Star</em> parenting column</a>, has parted ways with the company, citing disagreements with contractual rights.</p>

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25 Feb

RECAP: CJF J-Talk and the J-Source Newsperson of the Year winner announcement

<p> </p><p>Join us <strong>Thursday at 6:30 p.m. EST</strong> for the CJF J-Talk on Twitter, journalism and getting it right in a fast-paced news world with Andy Carvin, Mathew Ingram, Esther Enkin. </p>

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22 Feb

Blaming Twitter for real-time reporting errors ‘too simplistic’: Kathy English

<p><b id="internal-source-marker_0.45167572516947985" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.45167572516947985" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ahead of next Thursday’s CJF J-Talk on journalism ethics in a social media age, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toronto Star</span><spa

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22 Feb

White House press corps challenges familiar to Canadian journalists

<p> </p><p><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obama-the-puppet-master-87764.html#ixzz2LerpBdSm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO wrote at length</a> about the Obama administration’s lack of availability to White House correspondents and the government’s media puppet-mastery, noting that "the most unique twist by this White House has been the government’s generating and distributing of content."</p>

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22 Feb

Leonard Asper speaks about the demise of Canwest

<p><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.994318008422852px;">This post originally appeared on <a href="http://journomel.com/2013/02/21/leonard-asper-speaks-about-the-demise-of-canwest-2/" style="color: rgb(192, 2, 2); text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melanie Coulson's blog</a>, and has been reprinted here with permission.</em></p>

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21 Feb

10 buzzworthy announcements and pronouncements from Social Media Weekend 2013

<p><strong>By Shauna Rempel</strong></p><p>Social media developments tend to move at lightning speed.</p><p>Ever-improving technology, shifting user preferences and a new platform seemingly every week—it's a constant effort to keep up.</p><p>The latest <a href="http://socmediaweekend.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Social Media Weekend</a> at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism attempted to shine a light on the latest trends, new tools and recent developments, while looking toward the future of media in general and social media in particular.</p>

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14 Feb

Jonah Lehrer on why he needs rules

<p>Jonah Lehrer needs rules; he needs help to regain the trust he lost when his plagiarism was unveiled last summer. He made this much clear in a lunch speech given Tuesday at the Knight Foundation’s sixth annual Media Learning Seminar in Miami, Florida. (Lehrer begins just after the 1-hour mark of this video)</p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="340" scrolling="no" src="http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/knightfoundation?layout=4&clip=pla_df812e9c-fd3b-442d-8bec-5cb78f23192e&height=340&width=560&autoplay=false" style="border:0;outline:0" width="560"></iframe></p>

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13 Feb

Steve Ladurantaye on the media beat

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Ladurantaye.jpg" title="" /></p><p>Steve Ladurantaye has a rare job in Canadian journalism: He's a media reporter. Here, <strong>Eric Mark Do</strong> talks with <em>The Globe and Mail </em>journalist about why the media beat matters, what trends he has seen in his reporting and how things such as advertorials and paywalls may have an impact on the industry. </p><p> </p>

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