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7 May

On Rob Ford, Daniel Dale and Fencegate: Journalists, stand together for access to information

<p><strong>By Romayne Smith Fullerton</strong></p><p><br />The fight between Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and <em>Toronto Star</em> reporter Daniel Dale is bigger than a dust up in a public park.</p><p>It’s bigger, too, than the tittle-tattle about who said or did what to whom, or even what Dale was doing when he was in that public park behind Ford’s house in the evening of May 3.</p><p>Let’s remove the hyperbole and consider the larger issues.</p><p>Public officials are answerable to the public.</p>

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6 May

Student journalist draws lessons for media from her own tragedy and how it was covered

<p>Third-year journalism student, Laura Nicholson, <a href="http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=d510cc30-4e7e-4632-8009-66ca1a45a4e9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vivdly recalls</a> the murder-suicide that left her an orphan and what she wished the journalists covering the event and aftermath would have done:  "be sensitive to the reputations of the dead. Even though they are not alive to defend themselves, the family is left to pick up the pieces of emotional turmoil as a result of false information."</p>

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30 Apr

Has there been a shift in the way suicide is reported?

<p><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; ">By Melanie Coulson</strong></p>

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29 Apr

Burma media freedom a work in progress

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26 Apr

Social media movement celebrates Nick Kristof’s birthday

<p>Nick Kristof’s birthday isn’t until tomorrow, but <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-33619_3-57421675-275/kristofize-social-birthday-present-for-nick-kristof-aims-to-do-good/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at the encouragement of Sree Sreenivasan</a> of Columbia's School of Journalism, people on social media are “Kristofizing” to celebrate the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. That is, adding “of” to the end of their social media names as a way of recognizing his successful use of social media.</p>

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25 Apr

There’s opportunity in them sports fields

<p><em><strong>Malcolm Kelly </strong>gives a preview of a panel on sports journalism taking place at this weekend's CAJ Conference that will look at the revenue sports produces and the audience figures it draws that are, he says, the envy of more "serious" journalists.</em></p><p> </p><p>For years the denizens of the sports section were thought to hang out in the toy department.</p>

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25 Apr

The challenges of collaborative storytelling for television

<p> </p><p><strong>By Karen Owen</strong></p><p>Over the past few years, I’ve listened to casual conversations and organized discussions about citizen journalism.   I wondered if I, as TV journalist, was about to be replaced by anyone armed with a smartphone. That has not happened. I’m still gainfully employed, but the relationship between traditional journalists and citizens is changing.  We are now involved in more collaborative storytelling. </p>

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24 Apr

A quick look at news mediums and international development

<p> </p><p>Newspaper subscriptions may be waning in places where digital technology has been widely adopted and online news is quite literally at your fingertips at all times by means of smartphone technology, but this isn’t the case across the globe.</p>

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24 Apr

A PC majority in Alberta: The narrative the media missed

<p><em>Surging Wildrose vs. a disenchanted PC dynasty: It was an aggressive narrative the media wanted so badly to be true that we—encouraged by dependable polls—urged it along. As <strong>Zoey Duncan</strong> reports, it wasn’t until the ballot boxes were counted that we realized how utterly we’d all been swept along by so-called opinion polls.</em></p><p> </p><p>Only in Alberta could an election be called “historic” simply because the government faced some healthy competition.</p>

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24 Apr

A closer look at Alberta election coverage: tweeters, bloggers and mainstream context

<p><strong>By Zoey Duncan</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>See also: <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/pc-majority-alberta-narrative-media-missed">A PC majority in Alberta: The narrative the media missed</a></strong></p><p>Though bloggers and tweeters dictated much of the coverage of the Alberta provincial election, when it came to mainstream media, amongst all the digital pageantry and Wildrose boosterism, one thing was conspicuously sparse in the coverage: context.</p>

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