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17 Jul

Opinion: Why a revamped uOttawa journalism program isn’t good enough

<p><strong>By Michael Robinson</strong></p><p>In April 2015, I will graduate with a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Ottawa. </p><p>I will be one of the very last to graduate with such a degree. </p><p>This is because the University of Ottawa is rebooting its journalism program for the digital age, putting to rest its original four-year journalism program <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/journalism-program-hold-another-year-uottawa">that was suspended last summer</a>. </p>

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17 Jul

CBC ombudsman: Maintaining the record vs the right to be forgotten

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther Enkin_20.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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17 Jul

Globe public editor: One convicted journalist is guilty, others are not

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Sylvia Stead_18.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Two recent high-profile court cases involving journalists are likely to evoke quite different responses from you as a reader.</p>

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16 Jul

Education Matters: Should j-schools teach advocacy journalism?

<p><strong>By Janice Tibbetts</strong></p><p>The rise of “advocacy journalism” seems to be raising the question, both in Canada and the United States, of whether journalism schools should diversify along with the business.</p><p>This debate has been playing out in recent months at Montreal’s Concordia University, where the journalism department in which I teach is considering turning its graduate diploma into a global journalism program that trains students to report for international NGOs.</p>

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16 Jul

Globe public editor: Headlines are hard to write, but they must be precise

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Sylvia Stead_16.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The Middle East is a complex, complicated and very sensitive part of the world for news coverage. So news media must be careful to get the facts right and be cognizant of balance at all times.</p>

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16 Jul

CBC ombudsman: Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t cause killing

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther Enkin_18.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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15 Jul

How to keep community journalism strong

<p><strong>By Mike Davies</strong></p><p>The future of community journalism is no longer just about social responsibility or democracy or advertising, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/future-community-journalism-spells-economic-survival-rural-communities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote J-Source.ca innovation editor Robert Washburn</a>, “It is about the economic survival of towns, villages and neighbourhoods.”</p><p>He wrote that local news media “can and should be seen as playing a critical role if rural communities hope to be resilient in the face of economic upheaval.”</p>

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15 Jul

Brunswick News ombudswoman: Are stories of tragedy intrusive or cathartic?

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Patricia Graham_9.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Patricia Graham, ombudswoman for Brunswick News</strong></p><p>Journalists write about many things: sports, movies, politics, business, music, health, crime, and community events – these are just a few examples. Sometimes, as witnessed by recent events in Moncton, journalists are called upon to write about tragedy, loss and grief.</p>

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15 Jul

CBC ombudsman: Public deserves to know when they are going to have to see or hear shocking images

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther Enkin_16.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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15 Jul

Globe public editor: Rob Ford and the press conference that wasn’t

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Sylvia Stead_14.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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