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11 Sep

NDP buys front page of Halifax paper, much tut-tutting ensues

<p><strong>By David Akin, Sun Media national bureau chief</strong></p>

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11 Sep

What j-students need to know about protecting anonymous sources

<p><em>This is the first part of a weekly four-part series on legal issues young journalists should be cognizant about as they embark on their careers. </em></p><div><strong>By Thomas Rose, Law Editor</strong></div><p>On Jan. 21, 2004, armed with a search warrant, members of the RCMP <a href="http://www.adidem.org/Juliet_O'Neill_and_Ottawa_Citizen_Group_Inc._v._Attorney_General_of_Canada">raided the offices</a> of the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em> and the home of one of its journalists, Juliet O’Neill.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: Resources for journalism students

<p><strong>Compiled by J-Source staff</strong></p><p>September can be a stressful time for students, but whether you’re a first-year j-school student or a returning one, J-Source has you covered.</p><p>We’ve compiled a number of great back-to-school resources to help get you back in the groove.</p><p><strong>You are not alone</strong></p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: Why being a journalism student is like preparing for the gold rush

<p><strong>By Meagan Gillmore</strong></p><p>Seeking a journalism career is like preparing for the Klondike Gold Rush.</p><p>In the 1890s, thousands of people stampeded Canada’s North, looking for gold, adventure, escape. But not everyone who wanted it could cross the Yukon’s borders. The Northwest Mounted Police required people wanting to enter Canada to have very specific equipment that would be essential for their success.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: How to succeed at an internship in a city you’ve never been to before

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Rhiannon3.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Topher Seguin/Telegraph-Journal<br />Rhiannon Russell interviewing Pat Honeyman, a World War II veteran, for Victory in Europe Day in May in St. John, N.B.</em></p><p><strong>By Rhiannon Russell</strong></p><p>I spent my summer in a different city, in a different province, at a newspaper I had only read once before.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: A growing number of colleges and universities now offer data journalism courses

<p><strong>By David McKie, J-Source Ideas Editor</strong></p><p>Over the years, I’ve used this space and countless pages in <em>Media</em> magazine to explain, promote and then explain again the virtues of data journalism.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: How to crowdsource a data journalism course

<p><strong>By Chad Skelton</strong></p><p>One of the dirty secrets about data journalism—one you don’t hear very often in all the hype about how it’s going to revolutionize reporting—is that data journalism is hard. Especially for journalists who are more comfortable with words than spreadsheets and who got into journalism in the first place because they didn’t like math.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: Do students need a journalism degree? An examination of journalism education as an industry transforms

<p><strong>By Paul Fontaine</strong></p><p>As journalism students head back to the classroom, the debate over the value of a journalism degree rages on.</p>

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11 Sep

Lanceurs d’alerte à leurs risques et périls

<p><strong>Manning, Snowden, Assange… traitres ou héros? Chacun a sa petite idée là-dessus. Mais lanceurs d’alerte, personne ne le conteste. CBC Radio one lance une série sur ces hommes et ces femmes, qui au nom de la vérité et de l’intérêt public, </strong><strong>décident de porter à la connaissance du public, souvent contre l’avis de leur hiérarchie, des informations qu’ils détiennent et qui selon eux, menacent l’homme, la société, l’économie ou encore l’environnement.

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10 Sep

Should journalists refuse emailed statements as substitute interviews with politicians?

<p><strong>By David P. Ball, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/09/09/BC-Gov-Boilerplate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Tyee</em></a></strong></p><p>It's a frequent dilemma for many reporters: we request a government interview for its side of a news story, and instead we're offered an emailed statement -- often a series of pre-prepared talking points, sometimes ignoring our actual questions.</p>

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