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    Google for journalists: tips and techniques

    It's a tool we all use every day, but investigative journalists need to know Google inside and out. The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting organized a recent seminar on the subject in Toronto. Freelance writer Paul Weinberg checked it out. Here is his report.

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    Journalism on homelessness: Expert driven

    Canadian study investigates sourcing practices and framing of homelessness in the news. Elyse Amend and David Secko write about the study which considers the power of expert quotes in three Canadian newspapers to frame homelessness.

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    RueMasson.com souffle sa deuxième bougie

    Il y a deux ans, cinq journalistes indépendants créaient un site d'information dédié à leur quartier: RueMasson.com. Quelques milliers d'articles et de tweets plus tard, le site accueille aujourd'hui 25 000 visiteurs par mois en moyenne. Il compte plus de 3700 fans sur Facebook et plus de 2000 abonnés sur Twitter. Mais tous ces clics…

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    “People don’t have any right to information”

    By the end of the Second World War, Canadian press censors themselves had come to believe censorship did not work, according to Mark Bourrie, author of The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two. Though the top wartime censors, all former journalists, were not big believers in suppressing information in the…

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    How I got the story: Tim Bousquet on Halifax mayor Peter Kelly and Mary Thibeault

    Mary Thibeault’s estate has yet to be settled seven years after her death, and the blame lies with the executor of her will: Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. Rhiannon Russell reports on how Tim Bousquet investigated this story for Halifax alt-weekly The Coast and effectively ended the political career of the mayor of the largest city…

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    Press Freedom: Who gives a damn, anyway?

    It’s been 30 years since Section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms made a free press the law of the land. But, on the eve of a national conference to take stock of the state of press freedom in Canada, Ivor Shapiro sees more apathy than passion around the issue.