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10 Apr

A long history of controversy

Wikipedia has a comprehensive list of student newspapers in Canada, complete with a long history of each of the publications and their controversial articles and comics.

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10 Apr

Magazines – pitching stories, internships and freelancing

Columbia University interviewed magazine editors and writers about how a student can break in. The page acts as a “how to pitch and land a job” guide for students and […]

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10 Apr

Columbia’s Freelancing Guide

Columbia University provides its students with an in-depth freelancing guide. It provides information on magazines, local newspapers, wire services and alternative weeklies that will publish student work, including stories and […]

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10 Apr

A great tool for getting feedback on courses

If you want feedback from students about your teaching or find out whether they understood aspects of a lesson or lessons and you don’t want to wait for the formal […]

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10 Apr

Turning classwork into clips

The problem arises for students, who write good stories — full of solid reporting, awesome quotes and nice language — that never see the light of day. Columbia University brought […]

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10 Apr

Ask the Recruiter

Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press answers salient questions about internships, jobs, and journalism recruiting. Questions range from: why are we not getting internships to how to avoid being […]

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10 Apr

Six nominated for Michener Award

The Nunatsiaq News, a small weekly newspaper in Nunavut, is among the finalists for the 2006 Michener Awardfor public-service journalism. The News is nominated for articles about the impact of […]

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9 Apr

Newspaper profitability linked to newsroom spending

Investing in news quality has a stronger positive influence on newspaper profitability thanspending on distribution, circulationor advertising, according toresearchout ofthe University of Missouri-Columbia. Researchers from the journalism and marketing departments […]

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9 Apr

Rogers buys TV channels

Rogers has bought a package of TV properties, including the six A-Channel stations, from CTVglobemedia, Canada.com reports via Canadian Press. The price tag for the purchase is $137.5 million.

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9 Apr

Hannibal Lecter on the front page

courtesy Liam Richards The mainstream media tends to associate the term “psychopath” with explosive, uncontrolled, and highly graphic forms of violence, says a study by a pyschology graduate student at […]

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