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22 Oct

Maclean’s crowd-directed coverage of Parliament Hill

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p> </p><p style="margin: 14px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.100000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.871094); ">Albeit quietly, there has been an interesting journalism experiment conducted on Parliament Hill over the last week.</p>

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18 Oct

Roundup: Newsweek to cease print publication, go digital-only in 2013

<script src="http://storify.com/jsource/newsweek-to-cease-print-edition-at-the-end-of-2012.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="http://storify.com/jsource/newsweek-to-cease-print-edition-at-the-end-of-2012" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the story "Newsweek to cease print edition at the end of 2012" on Storify</a>]<h1>Newsweek to cease print edition at the end of 2012</h1><h2></h2><p>Storified by J-Source · Thu, Oct 18 2012 12:17:08</p>

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16 Oct

Peter Mansbridge goes Gangnam Style for Stratford Shakespeare Festival

<p>Turns out CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge can rock the horse dance with the best of them.</p>

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11 Oct

We made a list, you checked it twice

<p>We published <a href="http://j-source.ca/node/9403">a list of Twitter accounts</a> we thought would be useful for Canadian journalism students to consider following. Then, we invited your suggestions to make it better. The flood of tweets that followed did help make the list much better, and much longer, but also taught us some difficult lessons about the hazards of making such lists. This Storify, put together by <strong>Eric Mark Do,</strong> provides a glimpse of what happened on Twitter and good lessons for us all in the challenges of crowdsourcing in the age of digital journalism.

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4 Oct

Debating the need for a public broadcaster: Liveblog at The Ottawa Citizen, 7 p.m.

<p> </p><p>If you didn’t get your fill of debates last night with Obama vs. Romney, perhaps Coyne vs. Starowicz can do the trick.</p><p>Tonight, Postmedia’s Andrew Coyne and CBC’s Mark Starowicz will debate the need for the CBC and public broadcasting in the digital era as part of the <a href="http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/events/the-great-canadian-debates/">Great Canadian Debates hosted by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute</a> and taking place at the Canadian War Museum. The debate will be moderated by Canadian historian and author Michael Bliss.</p>

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26 Sep

On reporting from the 1972 Summit Series

<p><strong>By Robert Lewis</strong></p><p>Like millions of Canadians I remember exactly where I was when Paul Henderson scored the goal that won the 1972 Summit Series for Canada against the Soviet Union: in the stands behind and to the right of the Canadian bench in Moscow’s Luzhniki Ice Palace. The date was September 28, 1972. I was reporting for <em>Time </em>magazine.</p>

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25 Sep

J-Source’s Q&A with Carol Wainio

<p>Carol Wainio is a Canadian visual artist and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. She has also been writing about the media and Canadian columnists for years on her blog, <a href="http://mediaculpapost.blogspot.ca/">Media Culpa</a>.

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24 Sep

John Miller on ‘Wentegate’

<p><strong>By John Gordon Miller, from <a href="http://www.thejournalismdoctor.ca/Blog.php/wentegate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thejournalismdoctor.ca</a></strong></p>

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24 Sep

Plagiarism is only as wrong as we make it

<p> </p><p><em>We need to hold seasoned, high-profile journalists to the same standards that we expect future generations of journalists to uphold, <strong>Anne McNeilly</strong> argues. But how the industry has, at times, responded this year to Jonah Lehrer, Fareed Zakaria and now Margaret Wente has not set the best example.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Anne McNeilly</strong></p>

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21 Sep

Tips on breaking into the sports journalism world from Fast Break event panellists

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Fastbreak.PNG" title="" /><em>Fast Break event panellists, from left to right: Chris Jones, Akil Augustine, Julie Scott, Tas Melas</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Steph Rogers</strong></p><p>No one said that breaking into the highly competitive sports media industry was easy.</p>

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