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    My paper is expanding—and no, that isn’t a typo

    When Kamloops Daily News shut down in January, there was the usual shock and disappointment in the B.C. city where it published. And yet, the failing of one community newspaper meant that its competitor, Kamloops This Week, has decided to expand in a big way. KTW associate editor Dale Bass reflects on her newspaper’s growth.…

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    Book Review: Digital Currents explores how online news is changing television

    Drawing from extensive interviews with more than 100 key players in Canadian and British broadcast newsrooms, Rena Bivens’s Digital Currents is rich with insider examples and perspectives on the roadblocks and the rewards of making TV news in the digital age. Concordia University’s Corrine Smith reviews the book.

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    How digital journalism has changed over the past 15 years

    Journalists today are also marketers and event managers. The marketing—making posters, creating hashtags, publishing social media posts promoting the events, writing press releases, cold-calling potential panel members—involves techniques journalists wouldn’t have thought about using 10 years ago, writes Diana Pereira.

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    Remembering Heather Robertson

    Michael OReilly, president of the Canadian Freelance Union, pays tribute to the trail-blazing freelancer and her legacy. 

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    Opinion: Crackdown on unpaid internships a positive step, but the collective struggle must continue

    The rules around internships versus employees are not new in Ontario, but it is a welcome, if not long overdue, turn of events that the Ministry of Labour is finally conducting a proactive enforcement blitz to bring employers that use internships in line with the law, writes Katherine Lapointe.   

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    David Skok: Why the death of the homepage is good for digital journalism

    In the 2014 Atkinson Lecture, David Skok, digital adviser to the editor at the Boston Globe, explains why the death of the homepage is good for digital journalism.

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    Why the press can’t help but speculate about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight

    The story is the fact that the plane has disappeared—and what a terrible mismatch that is for the way the news cycle, social media and the human brain work, writes Craig Silverman. There is nothing to train a live camera on, tweet in real-time or crowdsource. 

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    CBC ombudsman: Perception of conflict of interest over Mansbridge and Murphy speaking fees matters

    Peter Mansbridge’s and Rex Murphy’s integrity are not in question, writes CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin. But since taking money leads to a perception of conflict of interest, CBC management may want to consider whether it’s appropriate for news and current affairs staff to be paid for speaking engagements.

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    Ask a Mentor: How to cover police, fire and other emergencies?

    A J-Source reader asked for advice covering police, fire and other emergency-related stories. Hugo Rodrigues, the CAJ president, shares his advice for following the story after it hits your scanners. 

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    Letter to the editor: CBC responds to Dan Rowe’s column on Peter Mansbridge

    Rowe’s suggestion that there is an implicit quid pro quo between a speech about journalism and the coverage we do every night in our flagship television news program, The National, is false, and a direct attack on the journalistic integrity of Peter Mansbridge, writes CBC general manager and editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire.

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