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18 Jan

Government statement singles out ‘controversial reporter’

<p>In what has been called an “<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Prime+minister+office+issues+amateurish+statement/7835932/story.html">unusual, if not unprecedented</a>” move, the Prime Minister’s Office and parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister Dean Del Mastro have issued a statement in response to reporting by Stephen Maher in which Maher is referred to as "controversial."</p>

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16 Jan

Western University Students’ Council vs. student newspaper The Gazette on campus space, press freedom

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14 Jan

On current affairs and satire: Esther Enkin’s first review as CBC Ombudsman

<p>Esther Enkin, who began in her new role as CBC Ombudsman on Jan. 1, released <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/pdf/2013-01-10-Carvalho.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her first review</a> last week.  In it, she examined CBC Radio’s <em>The Current</em>’s use of satire in its broadcast.</p>

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11 Jan

On The Canadian Press creating its first Storify: ‘Yes, you’ll see more of this’

<p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.882353); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.100000381469727px;">For Toronto hockey fans, Jan. 9 was a big news day: the firing of Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke was completely unexpected.</span></p>

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10 Jan

RECAP: Canadian University Press #NASH75 conference

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9 Jan

There is ‘no such thing as an uninteresting or insignificant life’ – excerpt from Sandra Martin’s Working the Dead Beat

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9 Jan

Toronto school board director Chris Spence admits to plagiarism in a Toronto Star op-ed

<p>Toronto Distrcit School Board director Chris Spence has admitted to having plagiarized parts of his <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/01/05/without_school_sports_everyone_loses.html">Jan. 5 Toronto Star op-ed on sports in schools</a>.</p><p>Spence has penned an apology, <a href="http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=10391&menuid=41252&pageid=34610">posted to the Toronto District School Board website</a>, in which he owns up to his actions:</p>

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7 Jan

One photojournalist who doesn’t want to die having never worked for a newspaper

<p><a href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-jonas-bendiksen/">Jonas Bendiksen</a> is an award-winning Noweigan photojournalist who has shot for <em>National Geographic</em> and has a second place finish in the Daily Life Stories category for World Press Photo to his name. While he has worked on a wide range of articles, including a project documenting life in <a href="http://www.theplaceswelive.com/">slums around the world</a>, there was a job Bendiksen hadn’t done that he wanted to cross off his bucket list: A newspaper photographer.</p>

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4 Jan

Toronto Star publishes apology for unattributed material taken from The Globe and Mail

<p>The <em>Toronto Star</em> has edited an online version of a business article and published an apology after it found parts of the article had been taken from an earlier report by <em>The Globe and Mail</em> without attribution.</p>

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4 Jan

Photojournalist John D McHugh launches new watermark iPhone app Marksta

<p>A London, UK photojournalist has <a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2233605/photojournalist-launches-watermarking-app-on-the-iphone">launched an app</a> he hopes will help photographers retain an element of control over their copyrighted work when posting photographs online.</p>

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