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Lara Logan, CBS chief foreign correspondent, appeared on CBS This Morning to speak about Marie Colvin, a foreign reporter for the Sunday Times who was killed yesterday in Syria, and about the challenges foreign reporters face in…

Is collaboration the key to making the most out of the relationship between citizen journalists and those professionally trained? 

CTV News Southwestern Ontario is offering viewers a web-only behind-the-scenes look at what goes into daily reporting. 

To further the discussion on the role of summarizing, curating and repackaging other peoples’ work, Jim Romenesko has asked the three parties involved in a recent case to weigh in.

Cuttings.me is a free tool that allows journalists to display their clippings online. 

Big city media, small town issues: How does Nova Scotia’s media balance the two? It doesn’t, says Greg Wade. This story, from the latest issue of the King’s Journalism Review, looks at the…

Journos got cute on Twitter for Valentine's day.

Jennifer Ditchburn discusses how she got the story of the fake new Canadians reaffirmation ceremony at Sun News and how she handled the reaction and subsequent personal attacks from personalities at the…

Another interesting take on newsroom Twitter policies (a topic that J-Source looked at last week) comes from David Carr’s Sunday column for The New York Times.

Does anyone care about conflicts of interest any more? Or, perhaps more accurately: Is the transparency in disclosing potential conflicts of interest more important than avoiding conflicts completely?