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6 Oct

Show students how to sculpt in a new medium

If we create j-school curriculum based on secrecy, control and broadcast we’re not training students to lead, writes Wayne MacPhail, we’re teaching them to do what’s already been done, but […]

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6 Oct

Wanna cover the Olympics? Win a job at the Globe

The Globe and Mail has launched Journalism Dream Contest, a search for one amateur reporter and one amateur photographer to cover the Olympics for the company. According to to a […]

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5 Oct

Transcontinental writers say ‘Ya Basta!’

More than a dozen Canadian writers’ groups banded together and issued a boycott notice against Transcontinental on September 30. “It’s about time that independent writers got our act together,” writes […]

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5 Oct

Canadian Living adds payment for recently announced internship program

When Canadian Living announced its new journalism contest/internship program last month, which included a writing contest and an unpaid internship for the winner, it was met with a wave of […]

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5 Oct

Why Harper Won’t Touch the Human Rights Commissions

Despite widespread calls for changes in Section 13 of the federal Human Rights Act, Prime Minister Harper is doing nothing about it. Why? Because the Conservatives don’t want to do […]

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5 Oct

What’s next for news? Videos, live blog and more

On Friday, Oct. 2. Ryerson’s School of Journalism and the Ryerson Journalism Alumni Association (RJAA), in association with J-Source, presented “What’s Next for News? A Conversation About the Future of […]

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4 Oct

What’s really under the sheets?

Investigative journalism aims to hold powerful institutions to account, and it does so with a method that is methodologically sound and free of bias. But it also has to tackle […]

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3 Oct

What journalism students can learn from Twitter

Every social media pundit is talking about what social media apps like Twitter are doing to the journalism industry as a whole, but there are some important lessons that Twitter […]

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3 Oct

The Globe’s 50 years in China

“Fifty years ago, The Globe and Mail became the first Western newspaper to open a bureau in what was then known as Red China. Beijing correspondent Mark MacKinnon reflects on […]

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2 Oct

Are war journalists hard-wired differently than other journalists?

So asks a professor of psychiatry and internationally-respected author who studies the effects of conflict reporting on journalists.The University of Toronto’s Dr. Anthony Feinstein will present this year’s Dr. Julius […]

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