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12 Oct

Covering the “Occupy” protests

<p>With Occupy Wall Street-style protests <a _cke_saved_href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Occupy+Wall+Street+protests+spreading+Toronto+Calgary+Vancouver/5491191/story.html" href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Occupy+Wall+Street+protests+spreading+Toronto+Calgary+Vancouver/5491191/story.html">heading to Toronto's Bay Street</a> this weekend, journalists may want to take note of their counterparts' coverage in Manhattan.

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5 Oct

Police investigations cast net over media footage

<p>Vancouver police are <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/vancouver-police-serve-media-warrants-demand-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving warrants</a> to collect hockey riot footage from media outlets. British media recently faced <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/british-media-give-riot-footage-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the same dilemma</a> in the wake of the London riots.

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28 Sep

FOI foibles

<p>The results of Canada’s latest <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/newspapers-canada-releases-foi-performance-audit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freedom of information audit</a> are in, and journalists hoping for progress since the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/foi-audit-shows-govt-still-keeping-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2007</a> and <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/annual-foi-audit-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2009</a> audits will be disappointed.

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21 Sep

Where are First Nations voices and issues?

<p>A post about UBC’s ‘<a href="http://j-source.ca/article/five-questions-duncan-mccue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reporting in Indigenous Communities</a>’ course had the Big Issue editor combing J-Source for related articles – and finding surprisingly few.

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12 Sep

Is TV news in Canada worth a damn? Two former journos discuss on The Mark

<p>As Tim Knight puts it on <em>The Mark</em>, he and Kai Nagata have some differences: "We're separated by 50 years and 2,000 miles." But also similarities: Both are former TV journalists who believe the industry is mortally ailing -- and both have recently penned widely read missives on why; <a href="http://kainagata.com/2011/07/08/why-i-quit-my-job/">Nagata on his blog</a>, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/day-i-finally-lost-all-respect-national">Knight on <em>J-Source</em></a>. One believes the industry can be saved; the other does not.

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7 Sep

Student voices needed

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/UofRJschool.jpg" style="width: 113px; height: 153px;" title="" /></p>

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31 Aug

Somalia ignored as crisis mounts

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Somalia famine UNHCR photo.jpg" style="width: 197px; height: 131px;" title="" /></p>

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24 Aug

A culture of grief and trauma

<p>This week’s Resolute Bay <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/20/north-air-crash.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plane crash</a> has journalists scrambling for <a href="http://globalnews.ca/regina/canada/first+air+says+cause+of+jet+crash+unknown+2+of+3+survivors+sent+to+ottawa/6442467531/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reactions</a> from survivors and mourners. Right or wrong, the <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/trauma-interview-right-or-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trauma interview</a> is an increasingly common assignment.

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17 Aug

Healthy reporting

<p>Whether the topic is <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/suicide-coverage-british-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suicide</a>, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/whos-reporting-haitis-cholera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cholera</a>, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/beyond-face-mask-pic-guidance-covering-swine-flu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SARS</a>, <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/liberation-treatment-how-audience-changing-health-reporting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberation therapy</a> or <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/what-journalists-think-about-swine-flu-coverage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swine flu</a>, it's a struggle to

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3 Aug

Summer of angst

<div><img alt="" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/The_Scream_1.jpg" style="margin-right: 4px; border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); float: left;" title="" /></div><div>Tim Knight’s stinging <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/day-i-finally-lost-all-respect-national" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critique of The National</a> continues to provoke comments on J-Source, echoing <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/can-journalism-be-saved-one-young-journo-comments-kai-nagata" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the buzz</a> over Kai Nagata’s ‘<a href="http://j-source.ca/ar

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