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    Female foreign correspondents and the question of rape

    Heated rhetoric aside, are journalists out of touch with the risks female reporters face in conflict zones? Ruane Remy asked this question in the Winter 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, and examined the unique situations that female foreign correspondents can find themselves in and how they can be better equipped to deal with them.

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    Hebdo: TC Media grandit en Montérégie

    TC Media a annoncé hier le lancement d'un nouvel hebdomadaire à Valleyfield, le Valleyfield Express.ca, ainsi que l'acquisition de Tout Magazine qui devient Tout Express. Le groupe, anciennement connu sous le nom de Transcontinental, poursuit ainsi son développement en Montérégie, une des régions qui connaît la plus forte croissance démographique au Québec.

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    The Walrus Foundation launches Walrus TV

    The Walrus Foundation is bringing its award-winning commentary to the screen in a new partnership with Toronto-based High Fidelity HDTV. Walrus TV launches today online at walrustv.ca and on television on High Fidelity’s ideas and culture channel, eqhd.

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    How a 17 year-old fell in love with journalism

    If you’ve ever doubted your career choice of becoming a journalist, check out this blog post by 17 year-old Jack Davis on The Huffington Post that describes how he fell in journalism and why he believes it is important. In it, the young man describes how he "stumbled" onto this career aspiration and why journalism's…

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    Pierre Tourangeau, ombudsman: «Les plaintes font avancer l’information»

    Radio-Canada n'a pas eu d'ombudsman pendant près quatre mois, après le départ de Julie-Miville Dechêne en cours de mandat l'été dernier. Pierre Tourangeau, a cédé son poste de premier directeur, contenu, nouvelles et actualités, pour lui succéder en novembre. ProjetJ est allé à sa rencontre pour connaître sa vision du rôle de l'ombudsman et de…

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    The ‘replaceability’ of journalists

    An Israeli daily newspaper tried a radical experiment – it replaced journalists with literary writers for some editions of its paper. David Secko and Elyse Amend write about the study that followed this experiment to see if other types of writers could handle daily deadlines, chasing truth, and working sources for information the way that…