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Globe and Mail Public Editor: The call for more Paralympic coverage

By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail Sports readers always have strong opinions about the most important story, what demands coverage and how prominent it should be. Football across the country,…
Emails reveal City of Lloydminster staff pushed Record launch in advance of possible local media closures

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor City of Lloydminster staff pushed ahead the launch of a city-run “online news source” to September 2016 to start building “credibility” should the city’s Postmedia-owned newspaper, the Lloydminster…
Media on the Move: September 22 to October 5

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Halifax’s The Coast is going Deep

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Alexander Quon There will soon be a new home for Canadian longform journalism—but Maritimers will notice a familiar name attached to it. Conceived…
Newsrooms need to talk about informed consent when reporting on LGBTQ+ communities

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Steph Wechsler In August, the CBC was named as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming that Farzam Dadashzadeh, an Iranian refugee now living…
Owning up to mistakes is a way to build trust with readers

By Kirk LaPointe If the academic literature suggests one-half of all stories contain a factual error, then it is clear that corrections should be in routine order. But when and how to…
Memo: David Skok joining Toronto Star as Associate Editor and Head of Editorial Strategy

Skok was most recently Managing Editor and Vice President, Digital, at the Boston Globe.
Film exposes role of Ugandan newspapers in persecution of LGBTQ community

Queer Ugandan filmmaker lives in fear for his life, but is determined to keep telling stories from one of the most dangerous countries in the world for the LGBT community.
Rogers Media reduces Maclean’s, Chatelaine publication schedules and takes four magazines online only

FLARE, Sportsnet, MoneySense, and Canadian Business will only be available online and on apps starting January 2017.
Postmedia closes 24 Hours Vancouver office, but free paper to keep printing

Eight staff members are impacted by the closure of the office

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