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13 Dec

Canadian Geographic acting editor Dan Rubinstein leaving magazine

<p> </p><p><a href="http://canadianmags.blogspot.ca/2012/12/acting-editor-of-canadian-geographic.html">D.B. Scott has reported</a> that Dan Rubinstein, acting editor of <em>Canadian Geographic,</em> is leaving the magazine to “write and take on a contract with the Canada Foundation for Innovation.” Rubinstein had been the managing editor of the magazine for four years prior to becoming acting editor.  </p>

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13 Dec

Lindsey Wiebe to join Maclean’s as associate web editor

<p>Lindsey Wiebe will be joining <em>Maclean’s</em> magazine’s digital team in the new year as the associate web editor of <a href="macleans.ca">macleans.ca</a> in Toronto and told J-Source in an email that she is "totally thrilled about it."</p><p>Wiebe was most recently the social media reporter and a weekend online editor for the <em>Winnipeg Free Press</em> until <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/winnipeg-free-press-cuts-seven-newsroom-staff">the newspaper’s most recent layoffs</a> in September, which saw seven newsroom jobs cut. </p><p> </p>

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12 Dec

Roger Gillespie joins Star Media Group start-up YourHamiltonBiz.com as managing editor

<p> </p><p>Roger Gillespie has joined YourHamiltonBiz.com, a new Torstar-owned Star Media Group business news site, as its managing editor.</p><p>Gillespie comes from CBC Hamilton, where he was the founding executive producer of CBC’s first digital-only venture that <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/cbc-hamilton-digital-service-officially-launched" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched in May, 2012</a>.  CBC Hamilton has <a href="https://cbc.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl">posted Gillespie’s former job</a> on its job board.</p>

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11 Dec

Daniel Henry on lack of camera and electronic access to courts: ‘It’s just not good enough’

<p><em>Media lawyer</em><strong><em> Daniel Henry</em></strong><em> was honoured with the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression 2012 Vox Libera award. In his acceptance speech, he called for journalists to keep pressing for camera access in court, saying that when the press – and by virtue, the public – is denied access to courts electronically, it is, quite simply, not good enough.</em></p>

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10 Dec

Q&A with Toronto Star’s ‘Pathologist’ Katie Daubs

<p><em>The </em>Toronto Star<em> experimented with a graphic novel representation of reporter Katie Daubs' two-week stay indoors and in Toronto's underground PATH system. It was a multi-platform project with maps, videos, photos and more. Here, Daubs answers some of <strong>Eric Mark Do</strong>’s questions about the experience.</em></p>

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10 Dec

Stephen Ward to become director of George S. Turnbull Center in Portland, Oregon

<p>Stephen Ward will become the director of the <a href="http://journalism.uoregon.edu/turnbull">George S. Turnbull Center</a> in Portland, Oregon, which is part of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism.</p><p>Ward has spent the last four years as the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the school’s James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics. Prior to that, he was the director of University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism.</p>

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4 Dec

Esther Enkin named next CBC Ombudsman

<p>Esther Enkin will take over as Ombudsman of CBC’s English services on January 1, 2013, CBC announced last week. She replaces Kirk Lapointe, who has held the role since October 2010. Lapointe will remain in a capacity to assist with the transition. </p>

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30 Nov

Marni Soupcoff joins HuffPo Canada as managing editor, blogs

<p> </p><p>Marni Soupcoff has joined Huffington Post Canada as its managing editor of blogs. Danielle Crittenden—who previously held the position—is now the international blogs editor for HuffPost.</p><p>Soupcoff comes to HuffPo Canada from the <em>National Post</em>, where she was deputy comment editor. </p>

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28 Nov

Andrew Lundy resigns, David Skok now acting director of GlobalNews.ca

<p> </p><p>In comings and goings in the industry this week, Andrew Lundy has resigned from Director of GlobalNews.ca, a position he had held since 2008. David Skok, who was previously managing editor, has taken on the role of Acting Director in the interim. </p>

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23 Nov

The Grid’s Sue-Ann Levy profile: Twitter fights, hashtag mistakes and the controversial columnist’s less-public side

<p><em>The Grid</em>'s cover story this week is<i> </i><a href="http://www.thegridto.com/city/people/sue-ann-levy/">a profile</a> of controversial <em>Toronto Sun </em>columnist Sue-Ann Levy comes a month after she made what at least one journalist called an <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkay/statuses/260595133626589184?tw_i=260595133626589184&tw_e=details&tw_p=tweetembed">attempt to “self-destruct”</a>  on Twitter.

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