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    Five Questions for Rachel Pulfer

    J-Source sits down for an in-depth interview with Rachel Pulfer, the newly-named executive director for Journalists for Human Rights, to chat about the organization's upcoming 10th anniversary, entering Libya, and combating the atmosphere of fear in post-conflict countries.

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    Five Questions for Julian Sher

    With this weekend’s cross-border investigative journalism conference fast approaching, J-Source sat down with speaker and Globe and Mail investigative guru Julian Sher to get some early tips. Sher dishes on scene-grabbing, brainstorming ideas, and finding hidden gems.

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    Occupation blues

    Caitlin Curran is the second U.S. journalist fired for joining the Occupy protests, although she claims she held up a protest sign as part of a reporting exercise. Lisa Simeone, host of an opera program on NPR, was fired earlier, despite her argument that opera is removed enough from current events that civic participation isn’t…

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    La tablette multimédia, un moteur de consommation d’info

    Plus de la moitié des adultes américains qui possèdent une tablette multimédia s'en servent pour s'informer et le tiers s'informent plus depuis qu'ils possèdent cet outil, selon une récente étude du Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Au Québec, les utilisateurs de tablettes sont eux aussi de grands consommateurs d'information, d'après les résultats d'une étude…

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    Singing at a news conference?

    In the growing list of funny things Americans do during the race for their party's presidential nomination, you can add Herman Cain singing out his news conference.

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    Rick Perry doesn’t get the Globe’s joke

    Texas governor, and Republican presidential hopeful, doesn’t get The Globe and Mail’s satire. Or, at least, it would seem that way after he recently took a jab at the Occupy movement by referencing a quote from a satirical Globe piece about Occupy Toronto.

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    What could make a journalism history class relevant?

    These days, everybody is concerned about the future of journalism. So why is it important to look at the past? Findings editor David Secko and Elyse Amend tackles the question, with the help of one Columbia professor’s findings.