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13 Sep

Creative problem-solving key to Ryerson’s innovation workshop

<p><strong>By Joyce Smith </strong></p><p>It’s no surprise that I agree with Maija Saari’s <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-j-schools-should-innovate-prioritizing-research-and-discovery-instead-waiting-indust">recent piece on innovation</a> on J-Source.</p>

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3 Sep

Carl Bernstein to speak at international investigative journalism conference in Winnipeg

<p>The University of Winnipeg and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are joining forces to organize an event in Winnipeg next June called: “Holding Power to Account: International Conference on Investigative Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights.”</p><p>The CBC has a long tradition of creating important investigative journalism in Canada, and the University of Winnipeg has a special interest in fostering global citizenship and engagement in human rights. The conference will explore links between investigative journalism, democracy and international human rights.</p>

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28 Aug

Centre of Media and Celebrity Studies launches in Canada

<p>Dismiss it all you like, but audiences have shown a deep desire for news about the entertainment world and celebrity gossip. Samita Nandy, a broadcast journalist with a PhD on fame from Australia's Curtin University, is the founding director of the new <a href="http://cmc-centre.com/">Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies</a>. The centre is the first of its kind in Canada and is housed in Mississauga.</p><p><strong>J-Source: How will this centre be a resource for journalists?</strong></p>

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27 Aug

Live blog: Everything you need to know about court reporting in real-time

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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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