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6 Dec

HuffPo Canada names their ‘news losers’ of 2011

<p>There are five stories that made headlines for all of the wrong reasons this year. </p><p>Huffington Post Canada has named their top five <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/05/losers-of-2011-year-in-review-canada_n_1126481.html?ref=canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“news losers” of 2011</a>, and none of them really come as too much of a surprise.</p>

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6 Dec

Five questions for OpenFile’s Sarah Millar

<p><em>We talk to <strong>Sarah Millar</strong>, the new social media and community editor at <a href="http://openfile.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenFile</a>, about her move from the </em>Toronto Star<em>’s digital team to the collaborative-based startup, why social media excites her and how journalists and editors can use the Internet better.</em></p><p> </p>

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6 Dec

The death of the sports interview: Exclusive problem or part of a larger trend?

<p>It's not entirely clear when it happened: When athletes went from being asked questions to being told to ‘talk about’ this or that; When information started moving so quickly and taken so out of context; When as a collective, sports figures – athletes, managers, coaches and media relations people – said enough is enough and put up their guard.</p>

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5 Dec

Covering Peter MacKay, Rob Ford and the Toronto Star: The ‘tabloidization of politics’

<p><em>Tabloid news is a real threat to journalism and the freedom of the press, argues <strong>John Miller</strong> in this post. Drawing upon last week's headlines about the </em>Toronto Star<em> vs. Rob Ford and defence minister Peter MacKay's helicopter ride, he urges the media: Keep the news in proportion.</em></p><p>Let last week stand as the one in which the media in Canada completed the "tabloidization" of politics.</p>

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5 Dec

2012 preview: Digital revenue all-important for newspapers

<p>Digital ad revenue is the only area in which newspapers expect to see revenue growth in 2012, according to KubasPrimedia’s annual preview report.  </p><p>As MarketingMag.ca <a href="http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/media-news/no-turnaround-for-newspaper-revenues-in-2012-kubasprimedia-41398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, 53 per cent of newspaper executives said ad revenues were worse than expected this year. With digital revenue being the only saving grace, newspapers plan on improving their online presence, content and digital advertising platforms.</p>

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3 Dec

Many Occupy Toronto protestors gave media fake names, one claims to Star’s Kathy English

<p>The Star's Public Editor, Kathy English, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/public_editor/2011/12/02/english_so_who_is_this_guy.html">tries to track down</a> whether one Occupy Toronto protestor used a pseudonym to the newspaper's reporters, without it being revealed to readers.  Then, he tells her that many of his fellow protestors did the same.  Were Toronto reporters duped or did they knowingly use pseudonyms - but perhaps duping readers?</p>

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28 Nov

Public voting is open for CP 2011 Canadian Newsmaker of the Year

<p>Let the year-end best-of lists begin. The Canadian Press wants to know <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/vote-top-canadian-newsmaker-news-story-2011-201554042.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who the public thinks is the Newsmaker of the Year</a>.</p>

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28 Nov

Aggregation and the user experience: Joshua Benton

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25 Nov

Freedom (or not) of information in Canada: Panelists agree on the latter

<p><em>On Nov. 22, the CJF hosted a forum, "Freedom (or not) of information in Canada." <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> was there, and speaks to the discussion that Canada's Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, had with journalist Jim Bronskill and lawyer Paul Schabas on the state of freedom of information in our country. </em></p><p> </p>

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23 Nov

U.S. journalist victim of the very fraud he was investigating

<p>It’s not every day that an investigative journalist finds out they have been unknowingly taken in by the very fraud they are probing.</p>

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