J-Source Newsletter - Pink Triangle Press goes digital-only; J-Source launches Great Canadian Literary Journalism series

TORONTO, Jan. 16, 2015 Pink Triangle Press to go digital-only in February
The publisher will fold print editions of Xtra in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver, cutting 12 jobs on the eve of the Toronto paper's 31st anniversary. Ronan O'Beirne reports.

Great Canadian Literary Journalism
In the first instalment of a new series, edited by Ryerson professor Bill Reynolds, Rebecca Melnyk looks at Guy Lawson's "Hockey Nights," a study of national pride.

Journalists shocked as Leslie Roberts suspended
A Toronto Star investigation revealed the Global Toronto anchor co-owns a PR firm whose clients appeared on his show. Journalists expressed their outrage on Twitter.

Media on the move
John Stackhouse takes a job at RBC, Andrew Coyne becomes comment editor at the National Post, Carley Fortune joins Chatelaine and more moves you might have missed over the holidays. Plus: a new way of tracking all those moves.

Should the Jian Ghomeshi story have broken sooner?
Media lawyers Thea Hoogstraten and Matthew Pearn look at the Ghomeshi story through the lens of Grant v. Torstar and the "responsible communication" defence.

Saša Petricic on the changing way we cover the Middle East
Speaking to J-Source's International Reporting Bureau, the CBC foreign correspondent says it's "really not fair" to keep sending freelancers into dangerous territory.

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