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8 Oct

20 years out of j-school: Comparing journalism past and present

<p><em>Twenty years ago, field notes editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli graduated from Ryerson's journalism program. News practice has changed remarkably between now and then. Here, she looks at the past, present and future of an industry trying to grapple with a rapidly changing media landscape and lots of uncharted territory.</em></p>

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2 Oct

10 tips for covering funerals

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Funeral.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Ottawa Citizen covered the funeral for Karen </em><em>Krzyzewski</em><em>, who was killed in September's fatal bus crash when it collided with a Via Rail train in Ottawa. Photo credit: Chris Mikula/Ottawa Citizen.</em></p><p><strong>By Matthew Pearson, reporter for the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em></strong></p>

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1 Oct

Highlights: How to land your dream internship in a newsroom

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26 Sep

Live chat: How to get your dream internship in a newsroom

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13 Sep

Creative problem-solving key to Ryerson’s innovation workshop

<p><strong>By Joyce Smith </strong></p><p>It’s no surprise that I agree with Maija Saari’s <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-j-schools-should-innovate-prioritizing-research-and-discovery-instead-waiting-indust">recent piece on innovation</a> on J-Source.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: What if you don’t land a job in a newsroom? There’s still hope (and it’s not just PR)

<p><strong>By Vanessa Santilli</strong></p><p>Mick Côté experiments with a wide variety of storytelling techniques in his job as a multimedia content producer for the Montreal-based startup Spundge.</p><p>“We started something fairly new called live curation,” said Côté, a journalism grad with both a bachelor and a master’s degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax. “Instead of live blogging, it’s curating live events, so you archive things that other people are saying.”</p>

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11 Sep

Top 10 tips for getting through your first semester of j-school

<p><strong>By Madeline McNair and Rubab Abid</strong></p><p>So you’ve decided to go to j-school? Don’t worry—we’ll help you! Two former teaching assistants from Western University offer their advice for getting through it all. </p><p><strong>1. Live and breathe the news</strong></p><p>We know it sounds strange, but in order to become an effective and critical journalist you need to be familiar with the news. Whoa, did we just blow your minds? Just stay with us here.</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: 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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