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24 Aug

Canadian media will continue to send journalists to Afghanistan

Despite the injuries sustained by two Radio-Canada journalists in a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday, news directors at Global National, CTV News, CBC News, Canwest News Service, the Toronto Star, […]

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23 Aug

Video tutorials about new online tools

This website includes links to a few short, effective tutorials about such things as using RSS readers, DIGG basics, blogging and alerts that online journalism students are bound to find useful […]

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23 Aug

OJR piece explores issue of “rewriting history”

In this piece for OJR.org, Elizabeth Zwerling, an associate professor of journalism at the University of La Verne in Los Angeles County, attempts to answer the question: Should editors delete […]

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23 Aug

Two CBC journalists injured in Afghanistan

Two Canadian journalists were injured in a road-side bomb attack near Kandahar, Afghanistan yesterday. Two Canadian soldiers were killed in the attack on the light-armoured vehicle in which the two […]

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23 Aug

Radio-Canada journalist recounts Afghanistan attack

Radio-Canada senior reporter Patrice Roy says it’s “difficult to imagine” the scene after surviving a roadside bomb attack that killed two soldiers in Afghanistan on Wednesday. He and camerman Charles Dubois were both injured during the […]

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22 Aug

Radio-Canada engage le juge Gomery

Richard Therrien, Le Soleil Deux points ressortent du lancement d’automne du service de l’information de Radio-Canada et de RDI d’hier: on multiplie les débats, et on augmente la présence de […]

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22 Aug

Voyage au palais de justice

Isabelle Richer, Radio-CanadaLe monde judiciaire est complexe, intrigant, parfois rebutant, souvent hermétique. Ce carnet me semble être l’occasion idéale pour donner une perspective plus juste de la teneur des débats […]

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22 Aug

When blogs produce good journalism

If you are teaching a journalism course about blogs, or using blogs,  you may find this list by Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU helpful. It is an initital list […]

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21 Aug

Lessons learned from teaching a first course in online journalism

An instructor who took on the challenge of teaching a senior workshop in online journalism at a university in Texas outlines how he tried to ensure the focus remained on […]

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21 Aug

Writing great headlines

If you are looking for exercises to help students learn to write effective headlines, you may find this site helpful. It’s an online interactive workshop for which copy editors have […]

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