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    Job posting: Associate Editor, The Canadian Journalism Project (J-Source.ca)

      Job: Associate Editor, J-Source.ca   Location: Toronto Term:  Nine-month contract Salary: Commensurate with experience Start date: March 4, 2013 Application deadline: February 8, 6:00 p.m. EST   J-Source.ca is the number one Canadian journalism news website in the country.  To ensure we keep providing news, opinion and resources about our profession and industry, we…

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    L’École de communications Urbania reçoit la première cohorte de son histoire

    En imaginant un laboratoire multidisciplinaire où se rencontrent le journalisme, les relations publiques, le design, la télévision, la production, les médias interactifs et l’organisation d’événements, l’École de communications Urbania se veut novatrice et ambitieuse. Depuis le 7 janvier dernier, dix étudiants de l’UQAM font un pied de nez aux traditions de stages en vivant une…

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    Are ebooks the new journalism frontier?

    On Wednesday January 30 ONA Toronto hosted a panel discussion about the role of ebooks in the future of journalism from the point of view of news outlets, freelancers and staff journalists.

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    Repenser l’idéal de transparence des médias

    Dans le cadre d'une étude de cas parue en 2012 dans le Journal of Mass Media Ethics, la professeure Sandra L. Borden se penche sur la transparence des médias en utilisant l'exemple du Rathergate, qui remonte à 2005. Il s’agit d’un reportage diffusé par CBS News selon lequel l'ex-président américain George W. Bush, alors en poste,…

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    ATI system in crisis: CJFE

    Canada's access to information system is in a deep crisis and without urgent reforms could soon become dysfunctional. That would be a blow to Canada's democracy, according to the new report by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), titled A Hollow Right: Access to information in crisis.

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    On slipping custom content into newspapers’ revenue mix

    On the rise of custom content, Jonathan Sas asks: Is the increasing presence of content sponsored by advertisers in any news publication a sign that it is figuring out how to survive, or just evidence that it is so close to death that it is cannibalizing its own credibility to buy a bit more time?