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HuffPo Canada has named their top five "news losers" of 2011 and the results don't yield too much of a surprise.

We talk to Sarah Millar, the new social media and community editor at OpenFile, about her move from the Toronto Star’s digital team to the collaborative-based startup, why social media excites her and how journalists and editors can use the Internet better.

ESPN published a feature yesterday about the “decomposed remains of the sports interview.” They look at how Twitter, scrums and press conferences have resulted in athletes and managers putting up their guard, turning the gap between fan and team into a gaping chasm. 

News media have a responsibility to keep the news in proportion. John Miller argues that the past week's coverage of Peter MacKay's helicopter ride and Rob Ford's freeze on the Toronto Star has largely failed to do this. He calls it: the tabloidization of politics. 

With 2011 revenues being less than expected, newspapers need to focus on creating digital advertising revenue next year. 

The Star's Public Editor, Kathy English, tries to track down whether one Occupy Toronto protestor used a pseudonym to the newspaper's reporters, without it being revealed to readers.  Then, he tells her that many of his fellow protestors did the same.  Were Toronto reporters duped or did they knowingly use pseudonyms – but perhaps duping…

Let the year-end best-of lists begin. The Canadian Press wants to know who the public thinks is the Newsmaker of the Year.

Joshua Benton wrote a piece for the Nieman Journalism Lab last week that is an interesting addition to the conversation surrounding Jim Romenesko’s departure from Poynter and the ethics of aggregation at large.

On Nov. 22, the CJF hosted a forum, "Freedom (or not) of information in Canada." Rhiannon Russell was there, and speaks to the discussion that Canada's Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, had with journalist Jim Bronskill and lawyer Paul Schabas on the state of freedom of information in our country. 

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.