HuffPo Canada goes zombie for Halloween
Huffington Post Canada has been taken over by zombies.
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Rosie DiManno on the “digital dross”
Increasingly, print doesn’t matter anymore, writes Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno – and that’s a bad thing.
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Help for Freelancers in Line of Fire
Two young Canadian journalists working freelance in some of the world's most dangerous regions will benefit from the first safety training bursaries offered by the Forum Freelance Fund.
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Les journalistes indépendants sont-ils mieux protégés en France?
Si le rapport de force entre pigistes et employeurs apparaît au Québec comme une source de potentiels conflits, pour cause de contrats aux conditions parfois douteuses, en France, les lois qui protègent les journalistes font florès. Mais qu'en est-il concrètement? Audrey Desrochers a posé la question à Michel Arseneault, un journaliste québécois installé dans l'Hexagone.
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Debate over licensing journalists in Toronto, Nov 5
The Massey Canadan Journalism Fellows are hosting a debate on Saturday Nov 5 at 7:30 pm to debate the proposals for journalistic licensing. Debaters include: Julian Sher, Award-winning investigative documentary-maker, book author and Globe and Mail writer; Josh Meyer, Medill National Security Journalism Initiative & McCormick Lecturer in National Security Studies, Northwestern University, Washington Bureau;…
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Piercing youth court ‘shroud’ of secrecy
A Toronto Star investigation into the city’s busy youth court met with resistance from judges and prosecutors, arbitrary publication bans and attempts to block access to the basic records the media needs to cover the justice system. In the words of reporter David Bruser, the paper had to fight to lift the “institutional shroud covering…
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Report that paywall for two Postmedia newspapers attracting paid readers; Godfrey plans to add more newspapers
A report in today's Globe and Mail says Postmedia is planning to ask more readers to pay for content. Paul Godfrey, CEO, says the experiments in Montreal and Victoria mean “the numbers [of paid readers] are growing. They’re growing slowly, but they’re going in the right direction… (U)ltimately, it will be across the chain.” [node:ad]
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Citizen reporter posts gun registry data
The federal government’s plan to destroy the data in the doomed long-gun registry has prompted an Ottawa Citizen reporter to publicly post a copy of registry data he obtained for a 2007 series published in the newspaper. Glen McGregor hopes this will preserve at least some of the data for future research.
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L’information, un bien public bien mal en point
À l'occasion du 125e anniversaire de l'hôtel du Parlement et du 140e anniversaire de la Tribune de la presse, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec accueillait cette semaine le Colloque sur la démocratie, les députés et les médias. En ouverture de colloque, l'intellectuel français Jacques Attali, a brossé un portrait sombre de l'état de l'information, des médias…
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Holmes magazine ceases publication – at least for now
Mike Holme’s magazine, the appropriately-named Holmes, will cease publication after its December issue.