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Postmedia moving majority of local content to A section in four newspapers

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Postmedia editors across Canada have announced plans to move most local coverage to the A section of the print editions in similar editors’ notes that ran in…
Journalism Jobs: November 23

Here’s our regular listing of Canadian journalism job opportunities.
Swearing, by the (style)book

By John Sandham for The Signal Kathy English is a busy person. As public editor of the Toronto Star for almost 10 years, she deals with dozens of issues every week relating to errors,…
Globe and Mail Public Editor: Reader was right to note lack of balance

By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail Earlier this week, a reader complained about an article published online about a diamond mine in Northern Ontario. She works in the North in…
Memo: Regina Leader-Post mailroom facilities to close, inserting operations to cease

The following memo was sent to Regina Leader-Post staff on Nov. 22, 2016. Effective January 14, 2017, inserting operations at the Regina Leader-Post will cease and the mailroom facilities will be closed.…
The effects of a less-than-diverse media workforce

By Amanda Ghazale Aziz When Carleton University asked reporter Judy Trinh to give a talk on diversity in the journalism industry to students in the journalism and communications program, she said yes. She…
CBC Ombudsman: Journalistic Truth — One Piece At a Time

By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Gregory Duffell, thought a story on The National about Liberal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef was a journalistic failure. He considered it a “cover-up” to counter…
Trump and why emotion triumphs over fact when everyone is the media

By Alfred Hermida for The Conversation The playwright Arthur Miller mused in 1961: “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” The assertion seems oddly quaint now – at a…
Toronto Star Public Editor: I should have listened to my dad about Donald Trump

By Kathy English for the Toronto Star “We, the media, were also on the ballot.” – NBC anchor Lester Holt. “To put it bluntly, the media missed the story. Make no mistake.…
Memo: Toronto Star announces more newsroom changes

The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on Nov. 18, 2016 from Michael Cooke, editor, and Irene Gentle, managing editor. Colleagues, I am very happy to announce some further changes…

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