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21 Dec

How I got the story: Selena Ross on Montreal’s dirty snow removal contracts

<p><em>Selena Ross set out to discover what was behind a number of pedestrians who had been killed by snowplows in Montreal. What she found was a snow removal industry that is entrenched in a culture of collusion, bid-rigging and violence. <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> spoke to Ross to find out how she got the story that has exposed the dirty money behind yet another Montreal industry.</em></p><p> </p>

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21 Dec

#Twitterfight or: How journalists manage their online presence

<p><em>Childish sniping, iffy ethics and the sheer lunacy of public feuds expose the human side of journalists. Is that wrong? <strong>Raeanne Quinton</strong> looked into the emerging trend of newsrooms issuing social media guidelines to reporters for the </em>Ryerson Review of Journalism<em> and recounts some infamous Twitter-battles between Toronto’s Jonathan Goldsbie and Sue Ann Levy.</em></p><p> </p>

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20 Dec

Political unrest proves deadly for journalists: CPJ report

<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists has released the results of its annual <a href="http://www.cpj.org/reports/2011/12/journalists-killed-political-unrest-proves-deadly.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey of journalist fatalities worldwide</a>. For the second straight year, Pakistan was the most dangerous place for the press, though there were also a number of new trends in 2011.</p>

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20 Dec

Can the future of journalism take lessons from its past?

<p> </p><p>With the future of journalism uncertain, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/twitter-journalists-best-friend-and-journalism%E2%80%99s-worst-enemy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> over whether or not Twitter makes for lazy journalists, and the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/when-storytelling-never-stops-working-all-day-news-channel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">24-hour news cycle</a> dominating newsrooms, it's important to sometimes take a step back and remember the foundations of the profession.</p>

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19 Dec

Twitter, ‘appification’ and technology: Journalism predictions for 2012

<p> </p><p>What will 2012 bring for journalism? <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2012/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Niemen Journalism Lab is rounding up predictions</a> from experts to answer that question.</p><p>The fact that everyone is talking about digital isn’t at all surprising. However, what they’re saying about it might be a bit more unexpected.</p>

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19 Dec

Toronto Star invites you to second-guess its editors in its ‘You be the editor’ survey

<p><em>Toronto Star</em> public editor Kathy English has put the call out to readers, asking for their opinions in the paper’s annual “<a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/public_editor/2011/12/16/english_you_be_the_editor.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You be the editor</a>” survey.</p>

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15 Dec

The top 10 tweets that were Storified this year

<p>Storify is an aggregating tool that is still relatively new; its role in digital storytelling still evolving. But it still helped  tell many important stories in 2011. </p><p>The company has compiled the top 10 tweets used in Storify this year -- and they all speak to stories that dominated headlines in traditional media. From the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, to Steve Jobs' death, to Occupy.</p>

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15 Dec

Ottawa: Where local reporters face federal roadblocks

<p><em>What is it like covering local news in a city that is home to the federal government? It's no walk in the park, as <strong>Holly Gordon</strong> explains.</em></p>

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15 Dec

‘The Elements of Style’ is transformed into a rap video by j-students

<p>Students at the Columbia School of Journalism have created a <a href="http://vimeo.com/33410512" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rap video</a> explaining required reading, "The Elements of Style." It was an attempt to “do for journalism nerds what the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keynes vs.

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14 Dec

Digital is to newspapers as electricity was to candle-makers: Ken Auletta

<p>Ken Auletta, author of books such as “Googled: The end of the world as we know it,” and writer for <em>The New Yorker</em>, <a href="http://ijnet.org/stories/ken-auletta-digital-almost-disruptive-traditional-media-electricity-was-candle-business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did a Q&A</a> with the <a href="http://ijnet.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Journalists’ Network</a> about the emergence of digital journalism and social media.</p>

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