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    Roundup: Canadian coverage of the U.S. election

    Last night, Canadian newsrooms fervently covered the U.S. election in which Barack Obama claimed victory to lead the country for a second term. Belinda Alzner put together these galleries of what Canadian media websites looked like last night after Obama's win was called, and what newspaper front pages from across the country looked like this…

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    On labelling advertorials

    How should newspapers be labelling advertorials so that it's clear to readers where the content is coming from? This is just one of the questions Jonathan Sas asks after a recent eight-page advertorial spread on the oil sands in The Globe and Mail was labelled differently in print than it was online.

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    The case for local publishers in local newspapers

    In light of the news that Sun Media had laid off five regional publishers in Ontario, replacing them with advertising managers, Steve Ladurantaye turned to his former publisher to ask: What role do local publishers play in newspapers?

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    Internships and the intersection of class struggle and opportunity

    If there is one thing that many young journalists can bond over, it’s the common experience of having worked in unpaid internships to gain experience. The downside to this is obvious and well-documented. But as Belinda Alzner explains, panelists at a recent conference on precarious workers demonstrated the topic of unpaid internships still prompts a complicated…

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    Maclean’s crowd-directed coverage of Parliament Hill

      Albeit quietly, there has been an interesting journalism experiment conducted on Parliament Hill over the last week. Every day, there is a list of committee meetings, panels and other goings-on in Ottawa. The trick for most journalists on the Hill is figuring out which one to attend, and which event will hold the most interest…

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    Roundup: Newsweek to cease print publication, go digital-only in 2013

    It may not be Canadian, but a legacy weekly magazine shifting out of print production as Newsweek announced today will likely have industry-wide implications, at least serving as an example for publications thinking about going digital-only. As a result, we have created this roundup of coverage and analysis that those south of the border have provided.