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28 Jul

Scott Stinson named Postmedia national sports columnist

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Scott Stinson_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Scott Stinson is the new national sports columnist for Postmedia Network.</p><p>Stinson, who currently covers news, arts and sports as a columnist for the <em>National Post</em>, will begin his new position on Aug. 18, senior vice-president of content Lou Clancy said in a memo.</p>

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25 Jul

Cara Fullerton leaving Global Calgary

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Cara Fullerton_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor </strong></p><p>Global Calgary anchor and reporter Cara Fullerton is leaving the broadcast industry after 14 years to pursue a career in health and fitness. </p>

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24 Jul

Star reporter Rick Westhead joins TSN

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Rick Westhead_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p><em>Toronto Star</em>’s foreign affairs reporter Rick Westhead is leaving the newspaper to join TSN as the network’s senior correspondent.</p>

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24 Jul

Julie McCann is J-Source’s new Field Notes Editor

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Julie McCann_0.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Nicole Blanchett Neheli.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><p>I’m pleased to welcome Julie McCann as J-Source’s new Field Notes editor.</p>

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24 Jul

Andrew Cochran to oversee implementation of CBC News strategy 2020

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Andrew Cochran_1.JPG" title="" /><img align="right" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Denise Wilson.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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24 Jul

Shauna Rempel joining Global News as social media strategist

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Shauna Rempel_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Shauna Rempel is joining Global News as its social media strategist in Toronto.</p><p>Rempel, who became the <em>Toronto Star</em>’s tech editor in June, had been the long-time social media editor for the newspaper.</p><p>Troy Reeb, senior vice-president of Global News, tweeted Rempel would join Global on Aug. 26.</p>

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22 Jul

Jeff Lewis joining Globe Calgary bureau

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Jeff Lewis_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Jeff Lewis is joining <em>The Globe and Mail</em> as an energy reporter based in Calgary.</p>

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22 Jul

Joe Banks joins J-Source with new column

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Joe Banks_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><p>I’m pleased to announce that long-time journalism educator and journalist Joe Banks will write a regular column for J-Source. Media Musings will cover a broad range of issues related to the journalism industry and journalism education, as befits someone with Banks’s experience.</p>

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22 Jul

8 bursaries awarded by Forum Freelance Fund for conflict zone training

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The Forum Freelance Fund has handed out bursaries to eight freelancers who cover conflict zones.</p><p>Each of the winners will receive up to $2,500 to attend a hazardous environment training course in the U.S. or Britain, said the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, which administers the bursaries.</p>

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21 Jul

Ed Keenan joins Toronto Star as city columnist

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Ed Keenan_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Ed Keenan is joining the <em>Toronto Star</em> as a full-time city columnist.</p>

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