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    Prix Greg Clark ouvert aux journalistes en début de carrière

    COMMUNIQUÉ – Les journalistes en début de carrière sont encouragés à soumettre leur candidature pour le prix Greg Clark de la Fondation pour le journalisme canadien (éditrice de ProjetJ). Cette récompense honore la mémoire de l'un des plus grands journalistes du Canada, correspondant de guerre, amoureux du grand air, humoriste, mais surtout, excellent reporter ayant offert des récits fascinants. La…

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    Packing Journalism Into a Tablet

    The new iBook authoring software is being used by two alternative media outlets for telling important stories and archiving stories. Wayne McPhail continues his exploration of this new technology and its role in journalism looking at these two examples of handling content.

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    J-Source’s exclusive interview with Digital First Media CEO John Paton

    Our associate editor, Belinda Alzner, sat down with Digital First Media CEO John Paton for an exclusive interview. The front-man of the second-largest newspaper company in the United States talks about his digital first strategy (where print comes last), on how Canadian newspapers are doing digitally (he's not impressed), and on how he has tried to change…

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    Le reportage d’affaires publiques: voir grand, embrasser large

    Par Chantal Francoeur Chacun sa méthode. Chacun sa façon de la décrire. Pour la cueillette, «tu plantes ton thermomètre et tu prends la température de la situation», explique un vétéran. Après, pour l’écriture? «Tu fais comme un sculpteur. Tu t’attaques à ton matériel comme si c’était une grosse pierre et tu tailles le bloc. Jusqu’à…

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    New media means new ways to cover climate change

    Just because mainstream coverage of climate change is waning doesn’t mean people aren’t talking about it. Candis Callison, a UBC professor with an interest in climate change coverage, argues that new media presents new opportunities for covering a topic that has traditionally posed trouble for journalists because it neither bleeds, nor leads. 

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    Does Nova Scotia media leave rural issues by the wayside?

    Big city media, small town issues: How does Nova Scotia’s media balance the two? It doesn’t, says Greg Wade. This story, from the latest issue of the King’s Journalism Review, looks at the few resources in rural Nova Scotia communities compared to those in Halifax.