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1 May

Student internship opportunities shrinking across the country

<p><strong>By Joshua Rapp Learn</strong></p><p>An internship is often the golden ticket to scoring a job in journalism. But with media outlets, such as the Toronto Star and Sun News, laying off staff, are there still jobs to be had for interns? And will the unions allow that? Well, it ain’t quite what it used to be.</p>

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30 Apr

The choices facing prospective j-students

<p>By Katie Ingram</p><p>Young people who think they might want to be journalists these days face a choice between a growing array of possible routes to get there.</p><p>The choices can be daunting. The first is whether to study journalism at all, or follow those who find their way into newsrooms without a journalism degree. If they choose to study journalism first, they must then decide between courses, programs or a collection of internships; community colleges or universities; undergraduate or graduate degrees; print, broadcast, online or some combination of all three.</p>

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6 Dec

University of King’s College expands graduate journalism offerings with MFA in creative non-fiction

<p>The University of King’s College has announced it will launch a Master of Fine Arts in creative non-fiction in partnership with Dalhousie University in August 2013.</p><p>King’s new MFA will teach students to employ the techniques of fiction writers to tell true stories in a two-year limited-residency program — the first of its kind in Canada.</p><p>The two-year program will follow a residency-mentorship-residency-mentorship pattern.</p>

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2 Nov

Photos: Inside the new home of Carleton’s journalism school

<p>Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication is settling into a new home this fall after moving out of St. Pat's — the building it called home for more than 25 years. The move began in April and some of the newsrooms and studios are still awaiting finishing touches. But the students are enjoying their new classrooms, study spaces and all those windows with the great views. Here's a peek inside the school's new digs.</p>

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23 Jul

New journalism program launched in Ontario

<p>By Angelina Irinici</p>

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23 Mar

Journalism program among nine cut at Cambrian College

<p>On Thursday night, Cambrian College’s board of governors voted to accept a recommendation that will effectively shut down nine programs at the school – including journalism. In fact, the school of Media Studies at the Sudbury college was <a href="http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3510419">eliminated completely</a>.</p>

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16 Jan

Deadlines approaching for j-school applications

<p>By Steve Zhou</p><p>Deadlines are looming for anyone who wants to enrol in a graduate or undergraduate journalism program in Canada this year. Prospective students should be getting their portfolios and application packages ready, complete with reference letters from their professors.</p><p><strong><u>Graduate Programs</u></strong></p><p>Admission deadlines for <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/university-programs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduate journalism programs</a> in Canada are just around the corner.</p>

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19 Dec

A different kind of j-school: Teaching journalism to specialists, rather than the other way around

<p><em>You can't cultivate strong specialty journalism by using a general j-school curriculum. Rather, you must teach the specialists the art of journalism. The University of Toronto's new certificate program looks to do just that.

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13 Oct

U of T launches new post-graduate journalism program

<p>A new and different post-graduate journalism program has just been launched at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.</p><p><a href="http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/journalism/">The program’s website </a> states that it is seeking 10 people who have some expertise in a subject and want to provide coverage of that subject in the global media.</p>

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21 Dec

UPDATE: Specialist or generalist; what kind of journalist should j-schools be producing?

UPDATE for CLARIFICATION Dec 20, 2010: The language in this story has been changed to clarify the program is at the proposal stage, and, that the memo outlining the suggestions […]

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