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While workers strike, Chronicle Herald starts hiring

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor The Chronicle Herald is hiring while its newsroom staff pickets outside. A job ad for multiple team editors and a content writer based in Sydney, N.S., was…
Jean-Pierre Blais at Canadian Club Toronto

CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais shares his thoughts on television news and the changes that will soon be coming to Canadian television.
Panel of MPs to examine issue of local news crisis, media concentration

By Jennifer Ditchburn for The Canadian Press Davey, Kent, Lincoln, Bacon. Now Liberal MP and heritage committee chair Hedy Fry is about to add her name to the list of Canadians who…
As BC vows real estate investigation, the story behind the exposé

By David P. Ball for the Tyee The scandal rattling B.C.’s real estate sector this week started with a single word: “Realtors.” While researching Vancouver home demolitions last year, a builder told…
Levant’s Rebel Media says Alberta NDP blacklisting its reporters

By Grant Buckler Rebel Media said it’s been blacklisted by Alberta’s ruling party. On Jan. 29, Calgary reporter Holly Nicholas and Alberta bureau chief Sheila Gunn Reid went to a government briefing about…
Brunswick News ombudswoman: Permit me to parade my pet peeves

By Patricia Graham, Brunswick News ombudswoman Now that the new year is well underway, I’ll share with you some of my personal journalistic vexations—things I hope not to see, or to see…
CAJ Ethics committee: Guidelines for naming sexual assault complainants

By Lisa Taylor To say the Ghomeshi trial incited a conversation about sexual assault complainants’ treatment in the media would be an understatement. The case has ignited debate about the trial process,…
Freelancers’ Dues: Getting paid in the digital age

By Nicole Cohen, Work and Labour Editor Back in October, freelance journalist Scott Carney launched Word Rates, a website for freelance journalists to pool information about publications’ pay rates, editors, and contracts (the…
Memo: Postmedia exec calls for big projects, affirms commitment to great journalism

Hello everyone. Two weeks ago, shortly after the difficult announcement that 90 of our valuable colleagues were leaving our newsrooms, I challenged our editors to help deliver the message that ambitious…
Live-tweeting the Ghomeshi trial demystifies court process

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Many people don’t understand what it’s like for sexual violence survivors to go through the criminal justice system. “Often times, we think that it’s cut and dried,”…

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