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17 Jun

Attention journalists: Federal government makes data site more searchable

<p><strong>By Fred Vallance-Jones</strong>, <strong>J-Source data journalism editor</strong></p><p>The federal government is poised to roll out an upgraded version of its <a href="http://data.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F9B7A1E3-1">open data site.</a></p><p>The site, first introduced in 2011, will be significantly improved, with better search abilities and more datasets, said a Treasury Board Secretariat official who spoke at a recent computing conference in Ottawa.</p>

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19 Apr

Best practices for community newsrooms

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p>

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17 Apr

How Canadian startup ScribbleLive helped report the Boston Marathon explosions in real-time

<p><strong>By Belinda Alzner, for ScribbleLive</strong></p><p><strong>(</strong><em>Alzner is a former associate editor of J-Source. This post was originally published on <a href="http://www.scribblelive.com/spotlight-2/the-boston-marathon-explosions-told-in-real-time/">ScribbleLive</a> and reprinted here with the company's permission.) </em></p><p>Yesterday was Patriots’ Day in the United States. It was a day that was, for so many, about doing nothing more than crossing a finish line.</p>

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13 Mar

Canadian startup Media Spot Me launches; helps journalists find experts

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>When <a href="https://twitter.com/StavrosRougas">Stavros Rougas</a> was a producer at "The Agenda" in Toronto, he says his biggest challenge was chasing down authorative experts to appear on the show. </p><p>"It was always a risk - you never knew whether they were the best in the field, if they were media-savvy," he says. </p>

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9 Nov

Create and share audio clips the free and easy way

<p> </p><p>Using audio to tell a story is a great device for journalists. SoundCloud makes doing that a little bit easier. The international journalists’ network has compiled a list of <a href="http://ijnet.org/stories/eight-ways-journalists-can-use-soundcloud">eight ways journalists can use SoundCloud</a> with examples for each.</p><p>Among them: posting news programming, reporting from the field, embedding audio onto websites, producing an audio roundup regularly, or even searching for sources.</p>

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22 Aug

Back to School: Instructors’ resources edition

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>J-Source has compiled this vast list of resources for journalism instructors to use in their classrooms. We’ve broken it down into three categories: <strong>The Basics</strong> (reporting, writing, interviewing and ethics), <strong>Broadcast/Visual Journalism</strong> (audio, video and photography) and <strong>New Media</strong> (social media, blogging, data visualization and multimedia storytelling).</p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: New Media

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: Broadcast/visual journalism

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: The Basics

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, <strong>Mary McGuire</strong> has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:</p>

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3 Jul

Canadian freelancers to benefit from safety training link

<p> </p><p>A Canadian charity is linking up with a British one to boost hazardous environment training for Canadian freelance journalists.</p>

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