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It’s not every day that an investigative journalist finds out they have been unknowingly taken in by the very fraud they are probing. George Knapp found out mid-interview.

Today is National Freelancers Day in the U.K., and journalism.co.uk has compiled a list of 10 things every freelance journalist should know.

We talk to Daniel Tencer, business editor at Huffington Post Canada about the site’s first major investigative project, Mind the Gap, why they’re not piggybacking the Occupy movement, and what we can expect from HuffPo Canada in the future.

ScribbleLive’s Dana Lacey chats with Jeff Jarvis, well-known American journalist, blogger, and professor at CUNY’s j-school.

Until now, Jim Romensko has kept mum over the Poynter-aggregation-attribution uproar. No longer.

Journalists may have a tough time getting RCMP to go off-message thanks to a new protocol that puts officers on a much tighter leash.

When one lecturer’s department at East Tennessee State University introduced a content-management system that put j-students’ first-ever stories in the public spotlight, the fallout was, as she puts it, “enough to make me tear up my syllabus.”

Bert Archer has an interesting piece up on the Toronto Standard about the ethics of aggregation in light of the whole Romenesko-Poynter-attribution uproar.

It isn’t just the current Conservative government that has a hate-on for the CBC, writes The Globe and Mail’s John Doyle. Every government in power since the CBC’s creation has had a beef with the public broadcaster, and, well, it kind of makes sense.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve written about two Occupy protesters who were fired — and the reignited debate over journalists and sharing opinions. Well, not all journalist-Occupy sympathizers had to be shown the door – some made the decision to leave themselves.