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    S’informer en ligne: pratiques mobiles, valeurs traditionnelles

    Colette Brin, Sébastien Charlton Les médias sociaux et les appareils mobiles s’imposent de plus en plus comme outils privilégiés pour s’informer en ligne. Toutefois, au Canada, comme dans plusieurs des 36 pays étudiés pour l’édition 2017 du Digital News Report, une étude du Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism publiée aujourd’hui, les supports traditionnels ou…
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    The future of ProjetJ

    By Christopher Waddell, Publisher We regret to announce that J-Source’s companion publication ProjetJ suspended publication in early May due to a shortfall in funding. Like J-Source, ProjetJ began in 2007 as a collaborative venture initially under the Canadian Journalism Foundation led by journalism faculty at Université Laval, the University of Ottawa and the Université du…
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    CBC Ombudsman: The “f” word — A threshold for its use in news

    By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Curtis Hopkins, thought swearing on an online video of an eyewitness recording of a bus billowing smoke was in violation of policy. The video was a powerful account of a breaking news story, although the swearing was not critical to the understanding of the story. Since the crew…

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    The Toronto Star is closing the Star Touch tablet app

    By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor The bell has tolled for the Toronto Star’s tablet app. On June 26, 2017, John Boynton, president and CEO of Torstar and publisher of the Toronto Star, announced in a newsroom memo that Star Touch will be replaced by a universal smartphone and tablet app as of Aug. 1, 2017.…
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    Memo: Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke on Star Touch closure

    The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on June 26, 2017 from Michael Cooke, editor. By now you will have read CEO+Publisher John Boynton’s email. The news that our tablet product will cease operation in a few weeks is terrible. There’s no way to spoon honey on to that. We tried something big…

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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: Does an idiom have a ‘best before’ date?

    By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail Our language doesn’t stay still. It adapts to a changing world, gains new terms, drops old ones and changes course when a term or phrase is widely acknowledged as hurtful and derogatory. One of those phrases appeared in the big headline on the front page of the…
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    Here’s what the New York Times has learned covering Canada so far

    By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor Outside an auditorium in the Rotman School of Management on University of Toronto’s campus, a group of young people shriek every time someone climbs up a nearby staircase or pops out of the adjacent elevator banks. They are anticipating the arrival of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who, in a few…

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    Apply for the J-Source/CWA Canada reporting fellowship

    There has been much public discussion about how to preserve local public accountability journalism. We want to answer the question: What can journalists do? Working journalists and their unions are the core drivers of media organizations in Canada, yet we often feel powerless to stop what appears to be an unending race to the bottom.…