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    Regroupement pancanadien d’enseignants et de chercheurs en journalisme

    Colette Brin, ProjetJ – 30 mai 2009 | Alors que la pratique du journalisme vit des moments difficiles, la recherche et l’enseignement universitaire dans ce domaine professionnel semblent plus dynamique que jamais. À l’issue d’un premier symposium pancanadien sur le journalisme, une quarantaine d’enseignants et de chercheurs ont décidé de s’associer pour promouvoir les échanges…

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    Globe and Mail targets Toronto with new web partnership

    “Following last week’s significant editorial shift, the Globe and Mail with new editor-in-cheif John Stackhouse at the helm is delivering on the promise to “expand the newspaper’s digital strategy.” The first community to benefit will be the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto city editor Kelly Grant announced the launch of a new web property — globeandmail.com/toronto …

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    Journalists challenged to expose wrongful convictions

    The media should tone down coverage that pressures police to solve crimes and devote more effort to reporting on trials and investigating cases that result in wrongful convictions, says lawyer-crusdader James Lockyer. Melissa Wilson reports.

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    Two bail ban appeals on Ottawa docket

    Canada’s highest court has agreed to review conflicting Ontario and Alberta rulings on whether a publication ban should be routinely imposed on bail hearings. The Supreme Court agreed May 28 to hear a Toronto Star and CBC challenge of an Ontario ruling in the Toronto 18 terrorism case, which limits the ban to cases heard…

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    Dion exonerated?

    Many moons after the fact, CTV will air a statement that it violated industry ethics codes by broadcasting former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion’s false starts in a television interview. The statement follows a Canandian Broadcast Standards Council ruling on Dion’s October 2008 encounter with Halifax anchor Steve Murphy. At the time J-Source posted this behind-the-scenes…

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    Protecting sources

    Regan Ray, J-Source | There is a “tidal wave” of five journalism-related cases before the Supreme Court right now, each of which will “test the value Canadians place on freedom of the press.” The top court will decide whether Globe and Mail reporter Daniel LeBlanc can be forced to reveal confidential sources he used in…

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    Blogue du jour: Fagstein (Steve Faguy, réviseur à La Gazette)

    Pour son regard irrévérencieux mais sympathique sur le petit milieu médiatique québécois et canadien. Toujours avec humour, Fagstein se plaît àdénoncer, entre autres formes de bêtise humaine, la détestable tendance àl’autocongratulation du milieu journalistique. On espère donc qu’il nouspardonnera de lui envoyer ces fleurs…Site