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    Winners of 2012 COPAs announced

    Digital journalism was honoured last night as the winners of the 2012 Canadian Online Publishing Awards presented by Masthead were announced at The Hoxton in Toronto by emcee Amber Mac.

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    Don’t scrap the paper: J-Talk with Canadian newspaper editors

    It’s not time to kill print entirely, but the industry has a slew of competitors and challenges that it must address. Eric Mark Do reports from the recent CJF J-Talk with a panel of Canadian newspaper editors, where they talked paywalls, digital strategy and plans to remain relevant and viable in a new media landscape. 

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    L’affaire Néron indigne toujours

    Près de 15 ans après la surprise qu’a généré cette poursuite dans le milieu journalistique, Pierre Trudel, spécialiste en droit des médias, affirme qu’une prise de conscience reste à faire sur la portée du jugement Néron. 

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    Maclean’s crowd-directed coverage of Parliament Hill

      Albeit quietly, there has been an interesting journalism experiment conducted on Parliament Hill over the last week. Every day, there is a list of committee meetings, panels and other goings-on in Ottawa. The trick for most journalists on the Hill is figuring out which one to attend, and which event will hold the most interest…

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    Le « chilling effect » : une croyance bien davantage qu’une réalité

    On ne peut vraiment plus se fier à rien ! Il semble si naturel de croire que les décisions des tribunaux, en matière de diffamation ou de respect de la vie privée par exemple, ont pour effet de refroidir les ardeurs des journalistes (le prétendu mais non moins populaire « chilling effect »), de les inhiber au point…

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    Roundup: Newsweek to cease print publication, go digital-only in 2013

    It may not be Canadian, but a legacy weekly magazine shifting out of print production as Newsweek announced today will likely have industry-wide implications, at least serving as an example for publications thinking about going digital-only. As a result, we have created this roundup of coverage and analysis that those south of the border have provided. 

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    Recap: CJF J-Talk with editors on reinventing the modern newspaper

    Paywalls, engagement, social media and competitors. Those were just some of the subjects broached in Thursday evening's CJF J-Talk with the editors of some of the largest newspapers in Canada. J-Source livestreamed and liveblogged the event. Check out our recap here.