Now on J-Source: Wilf Dinnick, OpenFile & the J-Source Award (Video); Humanizing obit writing; Unjust roadblocks to court files
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J-News Video: Wilf Dinnick talks J-Source Award win In this interview, Wilf Dinnick, CEO of OpenFile and recipient of the J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year award, talks about what the win means for him, his team and investors in local collaborative news. Link to article Ideas Embracing the dead beat: The final word on a life lived When it comes to writing obituaries, your story is the last word on a person's life. Don Gibb gives advice on how to write these sensitive stories in a way that gets everything right while humanizing, remembering and celebrating a person's life the way they deserve. With an introduction from Media magazine editor Dave McKie. Link to article Computer-Assisted Reporting Canadian newspapers and infographics: Too scared to try? Around the world, newspapers are boldly experimenting with online infographics - and they're making money. So why aren't papers in Canada following suit? Claire Prime looks into this in the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Link to article Law Bureaucratic roadblocks frustrate access to court files There is a serious and troubling disconnect between the principle of open justice and the reality on the ground. Dean Jobb explains that in many jurisdictions, the bureaucrats who oversee court clerks and registrar's offices have a habit of devising rules and policies that block access to court filings - policies that have little or no basis in law and make a mockery of Supreme Court of Canada precedents. Link to article Book Reviews Book Review: "About Canada: Media" What's the number one issue facing Canadian media? According to Peter Steven, it's diversity. Steven, a professor of media studies at Sheridan College in Ontario, has written a guide to Canadian media for Fernwood Publishing's pocketbook series About Canada. Marc Edge reviews it for J-Source. Link to article
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I recommend to read, also on ProjetJ, L'affaire Duceppe: d'abord du journalisme
by Josée Boileau from Le Devoir. As she says: "Nous sommes tous, collectivement, à la recherche du scoop, et cette quête prend parfois, comme la semaine dernière, une tournure frénétique, et des sources sont bien heureuses de nous alimenter, et nous sommes bien contents de les écouter, ce qui nous fera vendre ou remarquer. Dans cette effervescence, on en oublie parfois ce réflexe de base: vé-ri-fier".
Reader: Anne-Caroline Desplanques
Article: On Gilles Duceppe's use of parliamentary funds and the ensuing media war
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