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Welcome to Sources 2006 You are holding the 57th print issue of the Sources directory in your hands. After 28 years of print publication - and 10 years Web publishing via Sources.com and Sources.ca - it's second nature to keep looking for new ways to help journalists and writers find news sources, experts, leads, and story ideas. On the facing page, you'll see one of our latest innovations: the print version of the Sources Calendar, listing a variety of newsworthy events of national or regional interest. Included, too, are meetings and conferences hosted by and for journalists and writers like the Canadian Association of Journalists, Magazines Canada, the Professional Writers' Association of Canada, the Canadian Science Writers Association, the Canadian Authors Association, the National Magazine Awards, Freedom to Read Week, and Word on the Street. We hope you find this calendar useful, and welcome your additions and feedback. Simultaneously, we are also launching an online Calendar on the Sources.com Web site. The online version of the Calendar lists even more events than appear in the print version, including application deadlines for awards and fellowships available to Canadian journalists and writers. Organizations and companies listed in Sources are able to post their events on the online Calendar, so you'll find new items being posted there throughout the year. It's at www.sources.comhttps://calendar.sources.com/. Also on the Sources Web site are news releases posted by the companies and organizations listed in Sources. You'll find their announcements about their issues and innovations at www.sources.com/News.htm.
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on the Internet, are we still producing a print version of Sources?
One simple answer is that we send copies of Sources
to people who request it, and thousands of writers and reporters
are still requesting print copies. What users tell us is that for
some purposes, nothing beats print. And assumptions to the contrary,
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You've told us about Internet connections that are deadly slow,
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story, the print version of Sources is great for finding
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through a book to come up with new story ideas and new angles on
existing stories. Sources in print brings you the
power of serendipity. And that's why we produce Sources in print and online.
Tell them you found them in Sources Sources helps you create better stories,
more stories, faster stories.
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