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9 Aug

Northern newspapers are surviving — and some thriving — in the Internet Age

<p><strong>By Herb Mathisen, for <a href="http://upherebusiness.ca/"><em>Up Here Business</em></a></strong></p><p>It’s simple, right? The Internet is killing newspapers. Craigslist, online classifieds and job boards are siphoning off all important ad revenue, while the demand for free and instant online content is rendering the newspaper – especially the weekly – obsolete. The competition for eyeballs and advertisers is rendering the newspaper a pre-digital relic.</p>

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23 Jul

OPINION: Seeing calls for suppression of Rolling Stone cover ‘should make any journalist queasy’

<p><strong>By Lynn Cunningham </strong></p>

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23 May

CJF J-Talk live blog: Are We Getting What We Deserve From Sports Reporters?

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23 May

Everything journalists need to know about “Crackgate”

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23 May

Chequebook journalism: Should news outlets pay for the alleged video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Gawker.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Edward Tubb</strong></p><p>A major politician smokes crack-cocaine, and does it on video – even as a hypothetical, it’s difficult to think of a more tantalizing, or potentially damaging, news tip.</p>

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9 Jan

Reporters turned away from Victoria Island and Chief Spence, threatened with charges in Attawapiskat

<div>The movement that has criticized changes to legislation the federal government has proposed in Bill C-45, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_No_More" target="_blank" rel="noopener">better-known as the Idle No More movement</a>, took a while before it became the topic of mainstream political panels and front-page stories. But over the course of the movement and with her well-publicized hunger strike, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence became a “<a href="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Attawapiskat+audit+distraction+says+Idle+More+founder/7791974/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one o

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5 Dec

High-profile cases prompt further discussion of how to best report on suicide

<p>In response to the coverage of Amanda Todd’s suicide and the more recent alleged suicide pact, the Vancouver School Board is <a href="The%20story%20of%20Jill%20Wiznoski’s%20firing%20is%20a%20she-said,%20they-won’t-say%20kind%20of%20story.%20So%20where%20does%20the%20blame%20lie?%20Alex%20Posadski%20gets%20the%20former%20Selkirk%20Record%20reporter’s%20side%20of%20the%20story%20and%20the%20opinion%20of%20a%20few%20ethics%20experts%20on%20the%20dos%20and%20don’ts%20of%20journal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling for media organizations to adhere to guidelines</a> when they report on suicides <a h

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5 Dec

High-profile cases prompt further discussion of how to best report on suicide

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2 Aug

#NBCfail, Guy Adams and Twitter’s response

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6 Jun

Media coverage and the right to a fair trial

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