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29 Sep

Should journos publicly reveal their salary?

<p><em>Guardian</em> columnist George Monbiot thinks so -- and not just your salary, he writes, but every source of income. Book deals; how much is in your savings accounts; whether you charge rent to tenants -- all of it.</p><p><a href="http://www.monbiot.com/registry-of-interests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here's what he says on his blog</a>:</p>

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29 Sep

Did The Onion miss the mark with its ‘screams and gunfire’ tweet?

<p>Not everybody thought <em>The Onion</em>'s Thursday tweet "Breaking: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building" was very funny. Actually, it scared the living expletive out of some, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/the-onion-tweets-screams-and-gunfire--wheres-the-humor/2011/09/29/gIQASpCI7K_blog.html#pagebreak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports the <em>Washington Post</em></a>. Some people even thought it was a hack.<br /><br /><em>The Onion</em> isn't apologizing, saying "This is satire. That's how it works."

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28 Sep

Vancouver police serve media warrants; demand riot footage

<p>Police investigating Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots want media to hand over its footage -- and have started to serve warrants, reports the Canadian Press. You can check out the full story, <a href="http://globalnews.ca/vancouver+police+to+serve+warrants+on+media+to+obtain+riot+footage/6442491269/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. In the meantime, let us know: Should media hand over the footage, or fight the warrant?</p>

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28 Sep

Five questions for Paul Schneidereit

<p><em>We talk to Canadian Association of Journalists past president <strong>Paul Schneidereit</strong> about the association's response to the professionalization issue in Quebec, its vote against creating the title, and why the issue's not dead yet.</em></p>

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28 Sep

Covering Ontario’s election

<p>Toronto Star<em> staff tackled the polling controversy, the ethics of voting, and the plethora of sports cliches in political writing at a panel at Toronto's Word on the Street.</em> J-Source<em>'s <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> reports.</em></p>

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22 Sep

Roger Ebert on CBC’s Q

<p>Roger Ebert may have lost his speaking voice, but thanks to Alex, a text-to-speech software on Ebert's laptop, there is no reason for the wildly popular film critic to stay silent. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2011/09/20/roger-ebert-on-q/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out his interview with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's <em>Q</em></a> to hear Ebert's thoughts on losing his voice, his new memoir, his future plans -- and a fascinating taste of what it's like to interview somebody in this way.</p>

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22 Sep

From the desk of Kevin Newman, digital evangelist

<p>Kevin Newman is making good on his new title. <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/kevin-newman-new-co-host-ctvs-question-period" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Back in July</a>, Newman was hired as CTV's digital evangelist (and co-host of Question Period). Now, he's leading the digital way at CTV with a daily newsletter -- dubbed, appropriately enough, "The Daily Evangelist".<br />

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22 Sep

Johann Hari’s apology: Sincere or self-serving?

<p>British journalist Johann Hari has written a front-page personal apology -- more than two months after he was suspended from<em> The Independent</em> on <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8632979/Johann-Hari-suspended-over-plagiarism-accusations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusations of plagiarism</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/07/27/johann_hari/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fabrication</a>, plus <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100105146/johann-hari-hounded-me-for-years-all-he-gets-is-four-months-unpaid-holiday-from-the-independe

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21 Sep

J-Source’s top 10 j-movies

<p>Hollywood has enjoyed a long romance with journalists and the (US) newsroom; it’s estimated that approximately 2,000 fictional films have been produced in the US with journalists as main and peripheral characters (the earliest may be Delivering Newspapers (Director unknown), produced in 1907. Another 43 followed before the archetype,1931’s The Front Page (dir. Lewis Milestone) introduced a cynical, boozy, gambling, competitive reporters, both too lazy to break out of the pack, and, whose desperate passion for a scoop would see them kill it.

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16 Sep

Vindication for Maclean’s writer who penned Quebec “most corrupt” story

<p>Last year, <em>Maclean's</em> Quebec bureau chief Martin Patriquin <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/09/24/the-most-corrupt-province/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a cover story</a> that called Quebec the most corrupt, asking why it seemed to claim most of the nation's political scandals. He was lambasted.<br />

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