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7 Oct

On election nights, politics becomes spectator sport: Susan Delacourt

<p>What network called Ontario's election first? No matter what you may normally compare politics to, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/10/07/who_called_it_first_on_election_nights_politics_becomes_spectator_sport.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes the <em>Toronto Star</em>'s Susan Delacourt</a>, on election night, it's a sport.</p>

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7 Oct

Welcome to Hell: Toronto Sun

<p>Earlier this week, the <em>Toronto Sun</em> raised some eyebrows when it didn't endorse Conservative candidate Tim Hudak in the Ontario provincial election. Indeed, the paper didn't endorse anyone, penning a thoughtful editorial under the head "<a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/30/ontario-deserves-better?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=recommend-button&utm_campaign=Ontario+deserves+better" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ontario deserves better</a>."</p><p>Today, <a href="http://twitpic.com/6wg8y3/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we're back to this</a>:</p>

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5 Oct

Do young writers care if they get paid?

<p><em>Sarah Millar responds to Russell Smith's </em>Globe and Mail<em> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/why-dont-creative-young-writers-care-if-they-get-paid/article1361281/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a>, where he laments that young writers, unlike senior writers, don’t care if they get paid for their work. This post originally appeared on her blog, </em><a href="http://sarahmillar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Through the Looking Glass</a><em>.</em></p><p>"Why don’t creative young writers care if they get paid?"</p>

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5 Oct

Bringing the ha! to Hogtown

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/onionpartyshot.jpg" title="" />J-Source<em>’s <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> caught up with </em>The Onion<em>’s features editor Joe Garden, in town for the satirical paper’s Toronto launch, to chat about Canada, what makes it funny, and what’s in store for the Canuck edition.</em><br /><br />Torontonians – your weekly reads just got a whole lot funnier.<br />

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4 Oct

Unnecessary journalism phrases

<p>Estimated at about. Evolve over time. Of existence. Completely destroyed. Due to the fact that. Introduced a new.<br /><br />We could go on. So can Josh Sternberg, a communications firm owner and <em>Huffington Post</em>, <em>Mashable</em> guest writer.<br /><br />Sternberg created the blog <a href="http://unnecessaryjournalismphrases.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Unnecessary Journalism Phrases</em></a> in September, and is steadily filling it with all sorts of journalism writing faux pas -- and examples from the worst offenders.<br />

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4 Oct

Journalism in the age of data: video

<p>Whether you have no idea what data visualization is, how it can be used a storytelling medium, or already love it and want to learn more, <a href="http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/#.TnhTLKSo-kQ.twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">check out this video</a> produced during the 2009/10 Knight Journalism Fellowship. And if you've already seen it, it's worth a refresher.</p>

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4 Oct

Building an online community, Economist-style

<p><em>The Economist</em> has nearly 1.2 million Twitter followers, and more than 800,000 Facebook fans. How do you build a community like that? Well, tweeting about what you had for lunch probably won't do it. Challenging and engaging your online readers, however, will, says <em>The Economist</em>'s community editor Mark Johnson in a recent Q&A posted on <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/2011/09/30/the-economists-mark-johnson-ask-for-a-lot-from-your-community-and-youll-get-a-lot-in-retu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>editorsweblog.org</em></a>.</p>

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30 Sep

Want to know how the transphobic ad made it into the National Post?

<p>So does the <em>Post</em>. Advertising manager Enzo Loschiavo <a href="http://openfile.ca/toronto/blog/curator-blog/curated-news/2011/update-post-apologizes-still-investigating-how-transphobic-ad-go" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told <em>OpenFile</em></a> "I'll be honest, no one saw it." Meaning, none of the checks the <em>Post</em> runs before printing an ad caught the widely-panned Institute for Canadian Values ad.<br />

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30 Sep

Dale Bass: What is Canada’s definition of a journalist?

<p>Although it can seem like it, not everybody is against the idea of creating a professional title for journalists.</p><p><em>Kamloops This Week</em> reporter and Canadian Association of Journalists chair Dale Bass has been in favour of professionalization for a long time, and she has written a thought-provoking column in her paper explaining why. While Bass doesn't believe the government should be the ones to regulate it -- as was recently proposed in Quebec -- she does think journalists should be doing it themselves.</p><p>She writes:</p>

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30 Sep

The Globe on Postmedia’s digital switch

<p><em>The Globe and Mail</em> has published an <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-glitch-in-postmedias-digital-switch/article2185559/page1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in-depth article</a> on Postmedia's efforts to go digital dubbed "The glitch in Postmedia's digital switch."<br />

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