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In this Toronto Star video series on photojournalism, photographer Andrew Wallace discusses the benefits of zoom lenses

Dans une tribune publiée ce matin par l’ensemble des médias québécois, la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes (FPJQ) plaide pour un Québec transparent. De son côté, l’Association des journalistes indépendants (AJIQ) réitère sa demande historique, soit l’adoption d’une loi sur la négociation collective.

Alors que le Conseil de presse du Québec (CPQ) réfléchit toujours à la meilleure manière de renforcer l’éducation aux médias d’information dans les écoles, s’ouvre aujourd’hui en France, la vingt-cinquième édition de la Semaine de la presse et des médias dans l’école. Avec pour nouveauté cette année, une application tablette destinée à fournir des armes…

Welcome to the social age of news, where every page is a homepage, every beat is a site, and every journalist is a brand. Join the Boston Globe's digital adviser to the editor, David Skok, for the 2014 Atkinson Lecture as he argues why we've entered a new gilded age in journalism and what traditional…

A J-Source reader asked what he should look for in a freelance contract to make sure it is fair. Rebecca Collard, a Canadian freelance journalist working in the Middle East and North Africa, says understanding the business side of freelancing is sometimes the toughest part of the job and shares her advice. 

Le Droit published its first issue on Mar. 27, 1913—a year after the Ontario government passed Regulation 17, a law that “made English the only language of instruction in public schools.” It celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. 

On Jan. 6, 1974, at 6 p.m., Global Television Network launched under the vision of founder Al Bruner. The network, CKGN-TV, had six transmitters serving southern Ontario and was the first in the province to broadcast nightly news updates.

The Canadian Marconi Company's television station CFCF-12 (Canada's First, Canada's Finest) started broadcasting from Montreal on Jan. 20, 1961, after receiving its English-language television licence. Months later on Oct. 1, CFCF-12 became an affiliate of the CTV Network, which had just launched. Today, the station is known as CTV Montreal. 

The Winnipeg Tribune published its first issue on Jan. 28, 1890, after founders Robert Lorne Richardson and Duncan Lloyd McIntyre purchased the Winnipeg Daily Sun's presses upon its closure.