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21 Feb

Stephen Northfield to leave The Globe and Mail to join Human Rights Watch

<p>After 18 years at <em>The Globe and Mail</em>, Stephen Northfield is leaving the newspaper to become Human Rights Watch’s director of digital media in New York City.</p><p>Northfield has served on <em>The Globe</em>’s national desk, as its foreign editor and most recently, as deputy managing editor, digital and editor of globeandmail.com. He will be leading a team that will be working to increase Human Rights Watch's digital presence across all platforms. </p>

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8 Feb

CTV’s Roger Smith announces retirement

<p>Roger Smith has been a fixture of CTV’s Ottawa bureau for nearly two decades, but that will all comes to an end on March 15. Smith announced his retirement yesterday.</p>

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29 Jan

Changes to The Globe and Mail’s Books section

<p><em>The Globe and Mail</em>'s Book section hasn’t been killed, but there are some changes being made to it.</p><p>A story published on <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/mobile/story.cfm?c=190944">NOW Magazine’s website</a> Monday night said the <em>The Globe</em> was ‘slashing’ its Books section, reporting that editor Martin Levin and assistant editor Jack Kirchhoff would serve in those roles no longer. A tweet by the magazine suggested an even worse fate for the section.</p>

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29 Jan

eBook review: Cool Heads at Kingston Pen

<p>Review: Ron Haggart (author); Kelly Haggart (editor), <em><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Cool-Heads-Kingston-Pen-ebook/dp/B00A731ZBS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359654197&sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cool Heads at Kingston Pen</a> </em>(ebook), <a href="http://houseofhaggart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Haggart</a> (2012)</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Grant Buckler</strong></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/cool heads.PNG" title="" /></p>

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28 Jan

Postmedia announces management changes to publisher of Vancouver dailies

<p> </p><p>Gordon Fisher has been <a href="http://www.postmedia.com/2013/01/28/postmedia-network-announces-organizational-changes-2/">appointed president and publisher of the Pacific Newspaper Group</a>, which publishes Postmedia dailies the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province.</p>

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22 Jan

Krista Erickson leaves Sun TV’s Canada Live

<p> </p><p>Krista Erickson, the Sun TV host of <em>Canada Live</em>, has quit the network and moved to the United Kingdom, <em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sun-tvs-erickson-quits-her-slot-on-canada-live/article7607507/">The Globe and Mail’</a></em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sun-tvs-erickson-quits-her-slot-on-canada-live/article7607507/">s Steve Ladurantaye reports</a>. She has  since been spotted <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50139268n">reporting for CBS News London</a>.</p>

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21 Jan

Richard Garneau, French-Canadian sports journalist, dies at 82

<p>Sports journalist Richard Garneau died Sunday morning at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital at the age of 82.</p>

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21 Jan

Jean-Philippe Cipriani named editor-in-chief of ProjetJ

<p> </p><p>Our French-language sister site, <a href="http://projetj.ca/">ProjetJ</a>, has named Jean-Philippe Cipriani its new editor-in-chief.</p><p>Cipriani began his journalism career at <em>Le Soleil</em> and spent ten years working at Radio-Canada across all platforms. In February 2012, he helped launch The Huffington Post Quebec, serving as its news editor.</p>

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3 Jan

Photojournalist Mike Cassese remembered

<p> </p><p>Mike Cassese, the award-winning photojournalist who shot for Reuters and was a former <em>Toronto Sun</em> photographer, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 53 on Dec. 27. He was remembered by 300 people at a service on Monday, <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2012/12/31/former-toronto-sun-photographer-mike-cassese-fondly-remembered">the <em>Toronto Sun</em> reports</a>.</p>

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17 Dec

Laurier LaPierre, former broadcaster and senator, dies at 83

<p> </p><p>Laurier LaPierre, a retired senator and Canadian broadcaster, best known for co-hosting CBC’s <em>This Hour has Seven Days</em> in the 1960s, has died at 83, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/12/17/pol-senator-laurier-lapierre-seven-days-obituary.html">CBC reports</a>.</p><p>CBC says that in his role on the weekly news and current affairs program, he “was known to bring passion and emotion to the program, which often rubbed politicians and critics the wrong way.”</p>

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