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21 Dec

What have we learned from Newtown?

<p><em>After the frenzied scramble comes, in time, self-examination.  It needs to be the other way round, says Cliff Lonsdale, president of the <a href="http://journalismforum.fims.uwo.ca/">Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.</a></em></p><p><strong>By Cliff Lonsdale</strong></p><p>Much has been said and written about the media hoards that descended on Newtown, Connecticut, in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.</p><p>It was undeniably big news – news with a shockwave that reached around the world.</p>

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19 Dec

The future of community news is in capturing the local

<p> </p><p><em>Despite Sun Media shutting down a number of its weekly titles recently, community news experts and editors aren’t buying the idea that print is dead. As <strong>Ryan Mallough </strong>reports, there may be a number of reasons that print revenues are falling, but a focus on local news isn’t one of them.</em></p><p><strong>By Ryan Mallough</strong></p><p>Print is dead, say the experts.</p><p>But don’t tell that to community newspapers.</p>

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19 Dec

Why shouldn’t newsrooms work with the marketing department?

<p><em>No journalist would ever suggest that commercial interests should override editorial independence. But as Canadian Press editor-in-chief <strong>Scott White</strong> explains, some editorial managers are saying the time has come to reinvent and re-examine everything – including knocking some holes in the metaphorical wall between those who produce content and those who sell it.</em></p><p><strong>By Scott White, Editor-in-Chief, The Canadian Press</strong></p>

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17 Dec

The role of satire—and CBC’s This is That—in a post-humorous world.

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; line-height: 18pt;"><strong>By Shannon Rupp</strong>, </span><a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/12/14/This-is-That/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5pt; line-height: 18pt;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for the Tyee</a></p>

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5 Dec

Recap: CJFE’s A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting

<p>Join us at 7 p.m. EST when CJFE's <strong>Laura Tribe</strong> will be liveblogging the organization's annual gala: A Night to Honour Courageous Reporting. </p>

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5 Dec

Cape Cod Times fires writer after serial source fabrication discovered

<p>On Tuesday, <em>Cape Cod Times</em> publisher Peter Meyer and editor Paul Pronovost revealed that 31-year veteran writer Karen Jeffrey had <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121204/NEWS/121209902">fabricated at least 69 sources in 34 stories</a> and was no longer working for the Massachusetts newspaper.</p>

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30 Nov

Covering the U.S. election through expat eyes: The Globe and Mail’s citizen journalism project

<p><strong>By Chris Hannay, <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/11/citizen-journalism-across-the-49th-parallel-how-the-globe-and-mail-used-expats-to-cover-the-u-s-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for The Nieman Lab</a></strong></p><p>Politics in the United States is, for a lot of Canadians, a kind of spectator sport. Our border is so porous that most Canadians have some kind of link to the United States, whether we go there for work, school, or love, or just have a family member that has.</p>

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30 Nov

Discussion on The Agenda: When it comes to gender representation in media, do we need binders full of women?

<p>When Mitt Romney made his now-infamous “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_LQ3eHSZ9c">binders full of women</a>” comment during the second U.S. Presidential debate back in October, the Internet latched on. As with most viral things these days, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/10/binders-full-of-women-drive-major-twitter-traffic-in-presidential-debate.html">Twitter exploded</a>, <a href="http://bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com/">a tumblr was quickly created</a>, and <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/binders-full-of-women">memes were born</a>.</p>

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28 Nov

Winnipeg media, an Ikea party and the issue of freebies: CBC

<p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/11/27/mb-ikea-freeloading-jounralists-ethics-winnipeg.html?cmp=rss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBC reports that members of the Winnipeg media attended an exclusive party</a> hosted by Ikea Monday evening:</p>

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28 Nov

Telling the stories that have to be told – those of the most vulnerable

<p><em>How do you give voice to the voiceless without damaging them in the process? <strong>Paula Last</strong> reports from the recent CAJ event on interviewing survivors of trauma, explaining how journalists can be sensitive when telling their deeply personal stories</em></p><p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CAJ Trauma Matthew Wonk.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>CAJ Interviewing Surviors of Trauma panelists with moderator Esther Enkin and event organizers. (Photo: Matthew Wocks)</em></p>

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