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11 Aug

Q&A with Globe foreign correspondent

Toronto Life‘s September issue includes a Q&A with Globe and Mail foreign correspondent Doug Saunders, who discusses his new book, visiting the world’s most dangerous slums and what Toronto is […]

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11 Aug

The journalism grad of the new millennium

A decade ago, you needed a degree, the skills and some gumption to have a chance to land a successful career in journalism. A few decades before that, just the […]

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11 Aug

U.S. J-School considers a professional fee

The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkley is considering a new, professional fee for its program. The School is considering charging its new students an additional $5,000 […]

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11 Aug

J-school applications drop in Ontario

<p>by Peter Johansen and Mary McGuire</p><p>Applications to Ontario's degree programs in Journalism are down compared to this time last year, according to data released last month by the Ontario Universities Application Centre in Guelph. The number of confirmed admissions is also slightly down across the four schools that are part of the OUAC program grouping for Journalism.</p><p>Heres the picture in a nutshell:</p>

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11 Aug

Canadian Primedia acquires Kubas Consultants

Canada’s largest independent print and online rep house Canadian Primedia has acquired marketing research and consulting firm Kubas Consultants. Established in 2006, Primedia represents more than 130 newspapers, magazines and […]

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11 Aug

Sale of legal mags sends titles out of GTA

The Cartwright Group’s sale of Canadian Law Book to largely foreign-controlled Thomson Reuters constitutes a “major shakeup” in the magazine industry, D.B. Scott reports on his Canadian Magazines blog.Scott writes: […]

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11 Aug

Chatelaine nabs new art director

Sun Ngo was hired by Rogers Media as the new deputy art director at Chatelaine. Ngo has worked for Wedding Bells and Best Health, Masthead reports. Melissa Guerts also joins […]

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11 Aug

New publisher, editor at Eye Weekly

Laas Turnbull will join Star Media Group as Eye Weekly‘s publisher and editor. Masthead reports: “Turnbull will assume leadership for all Eye Weekly print and online properties and report directly […]

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10 Aug

“I’m not your errand monkey”: freelancers

If you work from home, you may have already fallen victim to prejudice. Namely, that your office-bound friends and family dump errands and the occasional child on you. In a […]

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10 Aug

Sharing course syllabi

When preparing to teach a journalism course, especially for the first time, it’s always helpful to find out what other j-educators do who teach the same kind of course. Now Poynter’s […]

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