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1 May

Spirit Dancing: How two UBC students gained access to report on this secretive Aboriginal tradition

<p><em>The University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism offers a one-of-a-kind class on Reporting in Indigenous Communities.</em> <em>Developed in partnership with several B.C. Aboriginal communities, the course is designed to elevate Canada's not-so-great coverage of</em> <em>Aboriginal issues and focuses on a specific theme.

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30 Apr

Canada’s only non-profit investigative centre shutting down

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CCIR.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Edward Tubb</strong></p><p>As traditional newsrooms continue to <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/globe-and-mail-offers-staff-voluntary-buyouts">shrink</a>, the question of how to do in-depth reporting – and also make money – in this country has never been more daunting. And now, Canada’s only non-profit investigative centre is closing.</p>

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24 Apr

The emergence of the market for data-journalism skills

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By David McKie</strong></p>

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23 Apr

Why so many journalists are making the switch from BlackBerry to iPhone or Android

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/smartphone1.jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_h/667441709/">Dan_H</a> / <a href="http://foter.com/">Foter.com</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC</a></em></p><p><strong>By Tracey Lindeman</strong></p><p>There was a time in the not-so-distant past when BlackBerry ruled Canadian newsrooms. Its signature QWERTY keyboard sped up emailing, texting, and even article and script-writing.</p>

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22 Apr

10 things revealed in the Toronto Life profile of Toronto Star editor-in-chief Michael Cooke

<p><br /><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/PaperWarrior.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>If you haven’t yet picked up <a href="http://www.torontolife.com/magazine/2013/5/">May issue</a> of the <em>Toronto Life</em>, you’ll want to: Front cover: a sweaty Rob Ford; Inside profile: T<em>oronto Star</em> editor-in-chief Michael Cooke, definitely not sweaty. It’s definitely a juicy issue for journalists.</p>

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19 Apr

A timeline: How CNN got it wrong with the Boston Marathon bombing coverage

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.987500190734863px;">Melanie Coulson is the first Michener-Deacon Fellow for journalism education and Senior Editor at the Ottawa Citizen. This Storify was reprinted here with Coulson's permission. </em></p><p> </p>

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19 Apr

Best practices for community newsrooms

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

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18 Apr

Steve Paikin thanks Twitter followers for catching his mistakes

<blockquote><p><em style="font-size: 10px;">“In the four and a half years I've been tweeting, I've managed to punch out <a href="https://twitter.com/spaikin">8,873 tweets</a>. I try my best to make sure they're accurate, and useful to the 36,000 or so people that follow me. But every now and then, I blow it. And, thankfully, I have a quality control system known as </em><em style="font-size: 10px;">you</em><span style="font-size: 10px;"> </span><em style="font-size: 10px;">that lets me know.”</em></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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16 Apr

Matt Gurney: Boston attacks show traditional journalists that Twitter has come of age

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Boston.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By <a href="http://twitter.com/mattgurney">Matt Gurney</a>, for the <em><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/04/16/matt-gurney-boston-attacks-show-traditional-journalists-that-twitter-has-come-of-age/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">National Post</a></em></strong></p>

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