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Tax tips for freelancers
Tax time can be dizzying for journalists: What can be deducted? What is a legitimate expense? If you're self-employed, how do you manage numerous revenue sources? Miles Kenyon helps to make sense of all of this, with advice from journalists and an accountant. 
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Does freedom of the press come at a higher price for student journalists?
A visit from the bailiff indicating you face a potential lawsuit for something your story linked to: Not exactly the best day in a student press newsroom. Emma Godmere, national bureau chief of Canadian University Press, explains what happened when she recently faced this situation and how lopsided legal battles such as a student newspaper vs. university bureaucracy can stifle freedom of the press.
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Aggregation, real reporters and local ads: CBC tests online-only news in Hamilton
The CBC Hamilton news service is a first for the public broadcaster: A stand-alone website with no radio station and no television outlet. Arik Ligeti reports on why CBC decided to try this now, and looks at what it will add to the local media market, which has already seen at least one online-only outlet fold.
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The racial and cultural implications of rapping the Elements of Style
Last year's adaptation of the Elements of Style wasn't the first time young, white, educated males have parodied hip hop, and it surely won't be the last. But Chris Richardson, a media studies PhD candidate at Western University, says that lost in the chuckles and grammatical debates is a discussion of what it means for journalism students to parody a popular style of music closely associated with African-American culture.
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