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23 Nov

Ten tips for freelance journalists

<p>Today is <a href="http://www.nationalfreelancersday.com/nfd-2012/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Freelancers Day</a> in the U.K., and <a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/contact-details/s42/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journalism.co.uk</a> has compiled a list of <a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/11/23/ten-things-every-freelance-journalist-should-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 things every freelance journalist should know</a>. Aside from some tips specific to U.K. finance and law, the tips are largely applicable to any freelancer.</p>

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23 Nov

Five questions for Huffington Post Canada’s Daniel Tencer

<p><em>We talk to <strong>Daniel Tencer</strong>, business editor at </em>Huffington Post Canada<em> about the site’s first major investigative project, Mind the Gap, why they’re not piggybacking the Occupy movement, and what we can expect from HuffPo Canada in the future. </em></p><p><strong>J-Source: A lot of the issues that the Mind the Gap series is focusing on are similar to those that the Occupy protestors have been talking about. Tell me a little bit more about how the series came about. What inspired you to start this series now?</strong></p>

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21 Nov

Future of News: ScribbleLive talks to Jeff Jarvis on the value of liveblogging

<p>ScribbleLive’s Dana Lacey recently interviewed Jeff Jarvis, who was in Toronto last week promoting his new book Public Parts. Jarvis is a well-known American journalist, blogger, and professor at CUNY’s j-school.</p><p>Check out the <a href="http://www.scribblelive.com/best-practices-2/jeff-jarvis-on-the-value-of-liveblogging/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview at ScribbleLive</a>, or watch the full interview below.</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hVzdBZ6QVVk?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></p>

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21 Nov

Romenesko: How I ended up leaving Poynter

<p>Until now, Jim Romensko has kept mum over the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/ethics-aggregation-bert-archer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poynter-aggregation-attribution uproar</a>. No longer. For a full account of his story on how it all went off the rails, <a href="http://jimromenesko.com/2011/11/18/my-bizarre-departure-from-poynter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">check out Romensko’s personal site</a> – it all started earlier than you might think.</p>

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21 Nov

RCMP put on leash: Toronto Star

<p>Journalists may have a tough time getting RCMP to go off-message thanks to a new protocol that puts officers on a much tighter leash.</p>

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17 Nov

First years and the rush to publish

<p>When one lecturer’s department at East Tennessee State University introduced a content-management system that put j-students’ first-ever stories in the public spotlight, the fallout was, <a href="http://aejmc.net/spig/2011/reforming-j101-what-i-learned-from-the-rush-to-publish-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as she puts it</a>, “enough to make me tear up my syllabus.”</p><p>One student lost his job. Another earned an F when it was discovered he had someone else do the story. Sources that were promised anonymity, it was revealed, were quoted. Photo credits were missing.</p>

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17 Nov

The ethics of aggregation: Bert Archer

<p>Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the<em> <a href="http://www.torontostandard.com/the-sprawl/romenesko-moos-and-the-abyss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toronto Standard</a></em> about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/152802/questions-over-romeneskos-attributions-spur-changes-in-writing-editing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uproar</a>.</p>

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17 Nov

Why every government hates the CBC: John Doyle

<p>It isn’t just the current Conservative government that has a hate-on for the CBC, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/why-every-government-hates-the-cbc/article4200566/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes <em>The Globe and Mail</em>’s John Doyle</a>. Every government in power since the CBC’s creation has had a beef with the public broadcaster, and, well, it kind of makes sense. After all, governments have always assumed since the CBC receives public funding it should hand softball, puff-piece style pieces to the government of the day.

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16 Nov

This time, journo Occupy sympathizer quits

<p>Over the past few weeks, we’ve written about <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/occupation-blues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two Occupy protesters who were fired</a> -- and the reignited debate over journalists and sharing opinions. Well, not all journalist-Occupy sympathizers had to be shown the door – some made the decision to leave themselves.</p>

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16 Nov

Why the Arab Spring isn’t the Facebook Revolution: Ottawa Citizen

<p>Facebook Revolution. Twitter Revolution. Neither of the latest social media monikers given to the Arab Spring fit, <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Arab+Spring+Facebook+Revolution/5710208/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em></a>’s Declan Hill. Or at least, not in the way many think.</p><p>“Part of the problem,” he writes, “is that the events of the last year were a social media revolution, but the revolution was more important for us -- the North American consumer - than it was on the streets of Cairo or Tripoli.”</p>

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