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Arianna Huffington was in Toronto yesterday for the Canada launch of the Huffington Post. So what did she have to say?

Yesterday, we reported that Postmedia has started a metered paywall experiment with two of its papers, the Montreal Gazette and the Victoria Times Colonist. Today, Metro Morning‘s Matt Galloway talked with Postmedia president and CEO Paul Godfrey about the move.

J-Source caught up with GlobalNews.ca managing editor David Skok, who was recently named one of this year’s Nieman Fellowship winners. He is the first Canadian online journalist to win the prestigious year-long fellowship at Harvard University. We talked with Skok about his reaction to the win, how he’ll spend his year of study, and the…

Couldn’t make it to the CAJ conference in Ottawa from May 13-15? We did. Read on for a round-up from some of our favourite sessions, and some great quotes from the weekend’s keynote speakers.

In today’s Globe and Mail, columnist Lawrence Martin asks a worthy question: have we lost our tenacity?

On Wednesday, the online publishing arm of the Atlantic, dubbed the Atlantic Wire, decided to open its online editing process to the public. At first they thought it would be a one-day-only experiment; now it could become a permanent feature.

I confess; reading this article brought tears to my eyes. Which, I suppose makes me a definite journalistic dinosaur, but let me share with you just one paragraph about Charles Kuralt and maybe you’ll read the whole thing and, if your career harkens back to those “good old days,” you might smile at the memories:…

An editor in Australia is pursuing a unique concept for online journalism. He’s hired working journalists as editors but academics as reporters. Andrew Jaspan said he believes this will bring a ““a fact-based and editorially-independent forum” that will “unlock the knowledge and expertise of researchers and academics to provide the public with clarity and insight…

Ever wonder what happened to John Temple, editor of the Rocky Mountain News when it folded? He found a second life online and, in this Columbia Journalism Review article, talks about doing more with less — way less.

What does the all-powerful Google search, and it algorithm, have in common with online content farms and machine-driven content? And what could it all mean for journalism and journalists? Read “Age of the Algorithm”, by Ira Basen, in this month’s Maisonneuve magazine.