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9 Jan

How a 17 year-old fell in love with journalism

<p>If you’ve ever doubted your career choice of becoming a journalist, check out <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-davis/my-accidental-love-affair_b_1193732.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this blog post</a> by 17 year-old Jack Davis on The Huffington Post that describes how he fell in journalism and why he believes it is important.</p>

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5 Jan

Global News re-visits viral video; Rob Leth gets ‘pwned’

<p>Global News has posted an extended version of its 2008 news-story-turned-viral-video.</p><p>Rob Leth was doing a stand-up for a weather story where he was timing an inner-tube toboggan race. It was routine enough — until one of the racers hit him head on. Leth flew into the air, nearly completing a 360 before landing on his back, rolling over, and delivering his sign off.</p>

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5 Jan

Some of the most shocking journalism job interview questions

<p>Journalism.co.uk has collected a list of some of the strangest, most hilarious, and legally questionable questions that people tweeted they had been asked during journalism job interviews.</p><p><a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2012/01/05/what-would-you-do-if-kelvin-mackenzie-called-you-a-c-and-other-memorable-job-interview-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out the Storify they made from the responses</a>.</p>

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5 Jan

There may be no real-life Mikael Blomkvist, but Stieg Larsson can still help journalism: The CJR

<p>In the wake of the release of Hollywood's adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s first novel of the best-selling Millennium trilogy, <em>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo</em>, the <a href="http://www.cjr.org/reports/the_girl_who_loved_journalists.php?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia Journalism Review has taken a look at </a>what the series exposes and accurately highlights about journalism — its fundamentals, struggles, and realities.  As the CJR says:</p>

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4 Jan

A publication with no paywall, no ads and no donor-chasing: A reality in Australia

<p>Imagine a publication that produced public-interest journalism with no paywall, no advertisements and no chasing of donors. Sounds crazy, right?</p><p><em>The Global Mail</em> in Australia will be doing just that.</p>

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4 Jan

Why is the Toronto Star selling ads on a section’s front page?

<p>On Dec 10 and 17, the <em>Toronto Star</em> ran a full-page ad for Mirvish's <em>War Horse</em> on the front page of its entertainment section, to the surprise of some. After all, the <em>Star</em>’s media kit states that its <a href="http://mediakit.thestar.ca/uploads/pdf/TSMK_creative_special.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">creative advertising positioning</a> is available in all sections, but not the front of sections (with the exception of front-page wrap-arounds). </p>

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3 Jan

Putting trust in Twitter (or not): @Wendi_Deng doesn’t belong to Wendi Deng Murdoch

<p>Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, made headlines over the weekend when it was <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/01/02/twitter_gets_a_new_user_rupertmurdoch.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely reported that the pair had joined Twitter</a>. But, that apparently wasn’t so.</p>

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30 Dec

Blatchford on Layton, Quebecor vs. CBC and Twitter: J-Source’s most-read stories of 2011

<p>Christie Blatchford on Jack Layton's death, CBC vs. Quebecor and Twitter: That's what you were reading about on J-Source this year. Here's our most-read stories of 2011: </p>

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22 Dec

Refugee claim denied for Iranian journo who wrote of a Canadian photographer’s death in Iran: The National Post

<p>Behzad Khalilzadeh wrote of the circumstances leading to the ultimate fate of a Canadian journalist, who he reports was raped and murdered in Iran in July 2003, but the story was never published. Instead, police threatened to kill him if he did not reveal his source, the <em><a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/21/canada-denies-iranian-journalists-refugee-claim/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Post</a> </em>reports. </p><p>The <em>Post</em> writes:</p>

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21 Dec

The media and Aboriginal issues in Canada: Is Attawapiskat different?

<p>By now, the mainstream media has made Attawapiskat a household name. But will the media eventually forget about the remote First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario as they have so many Aboriginal communities in the past, or will this one be different?</p>

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