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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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8 Apr

Community curation website Newsana launches

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Newsana.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>There are great pieces of journalism all over the Internet, but many are hard to find. Add to that Twitter’s shotgun blast, if you miss an interesting tweet, it’s gone.</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: 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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23 Apr

From open data to open code: The Guardian launches Miso project

<p>New for your reporter toolkit is code that will allow you to make data visualizations just like <em>The Guardian</em>.</p>

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28 Oct

Nieman guide to covering pandemic flu launched

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has launched a “comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.” The new website, Covering Pandemic Flu, is aimed specifically at journalists. The foundation […]

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8 Jul

Audioboo: iPhone app billed as Twitter for audio

If you’re looking to get audio online from an iPhone, TechCrunch noted recently that Audioboo is “about to become a huge blogger and journalist tool.” TechCrunch‘s Mike Butcher explained: “AudioBoo […]

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25 Jun

New project tracks reports released by government

An online project for journalists that tracks and links to government and NGO reports in Canada, which launched in April, now has more than 170 entries. Reports Canada, a blog […]

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25 May

How do you keep up?

In June I gave a talk to news librarians at the Special Libraries Association Conference where the question “How do you keep up?’ was a central concern. This is a […]

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