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26 Aug

Opinion: We Need a Digital-First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism

<p><strong>By Cindy Royal, for <em>PBS MediaShift</em></strong></p><p>At the annual meeting of the <a href="http://aejmc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication</a> in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, one panel addressed adding programming skills to the curriculum: “<a href="http://blog.webjournalist.org/2013/08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why All Your Students Must Be Programmers</a>.”</p>

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26 Aug

Melanie Coulson is J-Source’s new education editor

<p><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p>

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3 Jul

Inside the Canadian military journalism course

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/3.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Lo</strong><strong>la Fakinlede </strong></p><p>Real stories about the military don’t come from public relations officers or official statements.</p><p>The real stories come from soldiers who go to the frontline – and, the only way to get those stories is to talk to the soldiers.</p>

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26 Jun

Cars swept away, newsroom evacuated — how Calgary newsrooms dealt with the worst flood in Alberta’s history

<p dir="ltr"><em><span id="docs-internal-guid-143ccfd7-857d-f901-955b-2507a4a5648f">Three journalists from the Calgary Herald watched their cars get swept away by floodwaters while reporting on the scene. The entire CBC Calgary newsroom was evacuated and found a temporary home elsewhere so that broadcasts could continue. Those are just a couple of examples of what news organizations and their journalists went through to cover the worst flood in Alberta’s history. </span></em></p>

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26 Jun

What Canadian media is missing about climate change

<p><em>The following discussion is about a presentation on newspaper coverage of climate change. The presentation was held at Congress, Canada's national humanities and social sciences conference. </em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By April van Ert for <a href="http://news.ubc.ca/2013/06/06/what-canadian-media-are-missing-about-climate-change/">UBC ArtsWIRE</a></strong></p><p>Are national newspapers giving Canadians the information they need to make informed decisions about climate change?</p>

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25 Jun

Twitter rules for journalists? Here are 26 of Steve Ladurantaye’s

<p><strong>By Steve Ladurantaye</strong></p><p>Someone asked me if I had any guidelines for how I use Twitter, and I thought I could think of maybe five things that I believe to be true.</p><p>I’ve been on it for a few years now, and have made lots of mistakes. I’ve been boring, I’ve been funny, I’ve been not funny when I thought I was being funny, I’ve been argumentative, I’ve shared too much information, I’ve killed Gordon Lightfoot.</p>

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19 Jun

OPINION: How the Canadian media missed the real Northern Gateway story

<p><strong>By Robin Rowland</strong></p><p>Have you ever heard of Hunter Creek, B.C.?</p><p>The fact that 99.9 per cent of Canadian journalists haven’t heard of Hunter Creek is a problem.More specifically, the reporters, energy writers, business columnists and political analysts covering the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker controversy have never heard of Hunter Creek, means that they have missed the entire story.</p>

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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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6 May

Toronto Star reporters get mandatory training after newspaper publishes false allegations about MPP

<p>Toronto Star reporters will get mandatory training on fairness and due diligence after the newspaper published false allegations that Ontario MPP Margarett Best vacationed in Mexico while on medical leave. It issued a rare apology on its front page, citing an “egregious lapse of the Star’s standards.”</p>

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2 May

Opinion: On Brian Burke, journalism and Internet anonymity

<p><strong>By Thomas Rose</strong></p><p>Let’s face it; the reason most people are talking about Brian Burke right now is because he’s a well known powerful member of the hockey world who is defending himself against allegations of sexual impropriety involving a younger, attractive sportscaster who is not his wife.  If the case ever makes it to trial, and most cases involving defamation do not, the outcome will likely hinge on how the defence frames the issue. </p>

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