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    The media and Aboriginal issues in Canada: Is Attawapiskat different?

    By now, the mainstream media has made Attawapiskat a household name. But will the media eventually forget about the remote First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario as they have so many Aboriginal communities in the past, or will this one be different?

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    #Twitterfight or: How journalists manage their online presence

    Childish sniping, iffy ethics and the sheer lunacy of public feuds expose the human side of journalists. Is that wrong? Raeanne Quinton looked into the emerging trend of newsrooms issuing social media guidelines to reporters for the Ryerson Review of Journalism and recounts some infamous Twitter-battles between Toronto’s Jonathan Goldsbie and Sue Ann Levy.

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    Political unrest proves deadly for journalists: CPJ report

    The Committee to Protect Journalists has released the results of its annual survey of journalist fatalities worldwide. For the second straight year, Pakistan was the most dangerous place for the press, though there were also a number of new trends in 2011.

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    Can the future of journalism take lessons from its past?

    Things have certainly changed since the 1940s, but are there lessons to be cherry-picked from journalism of old as we move forward into new journalistic domains? Take a look at this video explaining the profession in 1940 from Encyclopedia Britannica.

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    Twitter, ‘appification’ and technology: Journalism predictions for 2012

    Journalism experts weigh in for the Niemen Journalism Lab on trends they expect to see in the industry in 2012.

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    Toronto Star invites you to second-guess its editors in its ‘You be the editor’ survey

    Toronto Star public editor Kathy English has put the call out to readers, asking for their opinions in the paper’s annual “You be the editor” survey.

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    The top 10 tweets that were Storified this year

    Storify has compiled the top 10 tweets that were used by the storytelling tool this year. 

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    Ottawa: Where local reporters face federal roadblocks

    What is it like covering local news in a city that is home to the federal government? It's no walk in the park, as Holly Gordon explains.

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    ‘The Elements of Style’ is transformed into a rap video by j-students

    Students at the Columbia School of Journalism have created a rap video explaining required reading, "The Elements of Style." Now, to find someone to sum up the CP Stylebook so eloquently.

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    Digital is to newspapers as electricity was to candle-makers: Ken Auletta

    Ken Auletta addressed the digital revolution in a Q&A with IJNet. 

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