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    Hebdo: Quebecor étend sa toile en Ontario

    Sun Media annonce le lancement de quatre nouveaux hebdomadaires dans le sud de l'Ontario, à Ottawa, Guelph, Kitchner-Waterloo et Windsor. Dès la fin mars, le Ottawa Capital City News, le K-W Review, le Windsor This Week et le Guelph Review desserviront plus de 400 000 foyers, selon l'évaluation de la filiale de Quebecor.

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    Press freedom in Canada examined

    A conference hosted by Ryerson churned up some interesting questions about the state of press freedom in Canada. Do Canadians take press freedom for granted? And who gives a damn, anyway? War censors exercised direct control during World War II, but concluded that hiding the truth at the start is easier than censoring it later…

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    Stage d’été: les portes sont ouvertes en région

    Contrairement à son vis-à-vis montréalais, La Presse, Le Soleil accueillera cinq stagiaires cet été à Québec. D'autres quotidiens régionaux du groupe Gesca ouvriront également leurs portes aux étudiants en journalisme désireux d'acquérir une première expérience de travail.

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    Twitter: A journalist’s gateway to the world

    While working as an assignment editor and producer at CBS News in New York, Natasha Rudnick found herself relying on Twitter more and more to cover remote and international breaking news. This phenomenon of social networking provided an invaluable tool in discovering information and contacting sources on some of the biggest stories of the last…

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    PWAC Awards accepting submissions

    The Professional Writers Association of Canada is accepting submissions for two award categories open to all Canadian writers: Features and Short Articles.

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    Libel and intimidation: Regarding Twit-slips and SLAPPs

    At a panel discussion part of Ryerson University's Press Freedom in Canada conference, Tim Currie discussed what happens when journalists mess up on Twitter and Normand Landry talked about the stifling of press freedom via strategic lawsuits.