Katie May wins Greg Clark Award
Katie May, a digital copy editor with the Winnipeg Free Press, is the winner of the Greg Clark Award for early-career journalists.
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Grosse restructuration à 24 heures
Le quotidien gratuit de Québecor Média abolit deux postes cadres et met également à pied ses deux infographistes. Il n’y a plus de salle des nouvelles en tant que telle dans la tour de la Bourse, les journalistes affectés à l’actualité ayant maintenant leurs bureaux dans les locaux du Journal de Montréal, alors que le…
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Matt Hartley leaves the Financial Post
Hartley, editor of Financial Post’s tech desk, is leaving the Postmedia newspaper to join communications agency North Strategic as its senior editor.
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Christine Dobby moves to Globe as telecom reporter
Christine Dobby, who covers telecom and media for the Financial Post, will fill the Globe’s telecom beat.
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This week in Canadian media history: William Lyon Mackenzie launches Colonial Advocate in 1824
William Lyon Mackenzie published the first edition of the Colonial Advocate on May 18, 1824, in Queenston, Ont. It was the first of seven newspapers that Mackenzie would publish.
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Broadcasters say no to political ads using their content. Sounds good, but can they do it?
With a provincial election underway in Ontario and 4 federal by-elections slated for the end of June the timing of the announcement by Canada’s national broadcasters that they will not allow unauthorized use of their content in political ads is auspicious. But as Law Editor Thomas Rose writes, making the ban stick may prove harder…
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J-Fest: Are journalists losing their audiences and impact on democratic society?
Are journalists losing their audiences and impact on democratic society? Vancouver journalist and author Arno Kopecky, documentary filmmaker Damien Gillis, veteran Ottawa journalist Mark Bourrie, editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy, and Victoria Times-Colonist legislative reporter Lindsay Kines talk about their work, why we should care about journalism and the impact it could have on society.
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Agressions sexuelles: les journaux privilégient le sensationnalisme
Les crimes sexuels les plus violents et ceux commis par une personne que la victime ne connait pas sont surreprésentés dans les quotidiens québécois, la population ayant ainsi une vision déformée des dangers réels. C’est ce qui ressort d’une étude menée par l’Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), et dont les résultats seront…
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Union: Globe proposes reporters write advertorial copy
The Globe and Mail wants its management to have the right to assign editorial employees to write and edit advertorial copy as part of their regular duties, the union said in a bargaining update.
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CBC’s Linden MacIntyre, Alison Smith, Nancy Wilson announce retirement
Linden MacIntyre, the host of The Fifth Estate, said he felt compelled to retire to stave off the layoffs of younger journalists at CBC who would lose their jobs as part of a $130-million budget cut. Meanwhile, World at Six host Alison Smith said she will retire at the end of June.