Archive
9 Dec

An archive of audio stories

If you are looking for some outstanding, award-winning radio documentaries, you might find them at this online archive from Sound Portraits.

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9 Dec

A guide to digital storytelling from the BBC

This is a step by step guide from the BBC about how to produce digitial stories, which it defines as “mini-movies” or “short, personal, multimedia scraps of TV that people […]

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9 Dec

Teaching j-students to use social media

Looking for ideas about how to teach j-students to use social media in their reporting? Here’s a list of ten ways some j-schools are doing it from Mashable.com.

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8 Dec

QMI entre dans sa phase de consolidation

L’agence QMI sera fin prête, rodée et pleinement opérationnelle le 30 juin 2010, date à laquelle Quebecor quittera officiellement le giron des agences La Presse Canadienne et Associated Press. Pour l’aider […]

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8 Dec

Five minutes of Al Gore, then everybody out except…

If anyone is still in need of proof that the news media industry is changing, a recent Al Gore speech in Toronto was a case in point. After playing an […]

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8 Dec

CJFE to pay tribute to two journalists and one news outlet

This week, the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) will pay tribute to two journalists and the staff of a news outlet at the 2009 International Press Freedom Awards ceremony. Iranian […]

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8 Dec

Memo to j-boomers: times change

In his final editorial, J-Source‘s outgoing editor-in-chief, Ivor Shapiro, has a message for fellow members of his generation: Whining about the good old days isn’t just boring; it’s blinkered. The […]

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8 Dec

Finally, help for science journalists

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="left" alt="Peter Calamai" border="0" height="91" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Peter_C.jpg" title="Peter Calamai" width="73" />When it comes to science stories, overworked reporters often resort to rounding up quotes from duelling experts, writes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Calamai</span>.

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8 Dec

Write or die: teaching students to write quickly

When teaching my students to write first drafts quickly, explains Mark Hamilton, the web-based tool Write or Die is a big help. It puts emphasis on the revision stage and […]

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7 Dec

Court rules anti-gay letter wasn’t hate speech

Overturning a ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission, a Court of Queen’s Bench judge ruled last week that an anti-gay letter published in the Red Deer Advocate was not […]

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