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22 Oct

Book Review: Gene Allen’s Making National News cements the influential but little-known role Canadian Press played as a significant cultural force

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Making National News_0.JPG" title="" />Gene Allen | <em>Making National News: A History of Canadian Press</em> | University of Toronto Press | Paperback: $34.95</p><p><strong>Reviewed by Catherine McKercher</strong></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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28 Jun

Digital journalist survival guide

From API to cloud computing to XML, PoynterOnline has created an extensive glossary of tech terms every journalist should know. Here’s a selection (but check out the full list for […]

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28 Jul

Adventures in long-form magazine editing

Trying to imagine the best way for a story to unfold before a reader’s eyes is first and foremost in any editor’s mind when handling a lengthy manuscript, writes Bill […]

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10 Jul

Reuters Handbook of Journalism now online

The Reuters Handbook of Journalism is “the guidance Reuters journalists live by,” according to Dean Wright, global editor, ethics, innovation and news standards for the news agency. The Reuters Handbook […]

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16 Jun

From beat reporter to book author 500 words at a time

ByRod McQueen People used to tug on my drinking arm at receptions and say, “I’ve always wanted to be an author. How do you write a book?” I had a […]

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8 Feb

Canada’s official languages

The Officer of the Commissioner of Official Languages works “to promote and expand the dialogue between all the members of our society.”The site presents several issues and news, in articles […]

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