Archive
27 Sep

Student debt, election-style

Check out this post from my classmate Dan Robson at Carleton University about student debt and the promises made during election time- that don’t always come to fruition.

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18 Sep

A Twitter Style Guide?

Students at Columbia University recently used Twitter- where messages no longer than 140 characters are sent to other members and in this case, posted online- to cover a presidential forum […]

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16 Sep

CUPE fights firings

The Canadian Union of Public Employees- that’s CUPE to you- is fighting the firing of two employees at Ryerson University’s CKLN radio station.According to CUPE, management at the student-supported campus […]

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14 Sep

Election issues at UBC

This is what’s affecting student voters at the University of British Columbia.Looks like tuition, the environment, and the 2010 Olympics are at the top of the list. What do you […]

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11 Sep

The election, all mapped out

Professors at Laurier University have launched an interactive website to monitor and analyze the federal election using maps, blogs, graphs, and tables.That’s right: a federal election tracker. Want to know […]

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11 Sep

J-students to work with Ottawa Sun team on election night

A group of ten second-year journalism students in Algonquin College‘s journalism program will be joining the Ottawa Sun’s team of reporters on election night. Joe Banks, a cooordinator of the […]

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20 Aug

The wonderful world of semicolons

In this article, the Financial Times delves into the exciting world of punctuation. More specifically, it is a love letter to everybody’s favourite form: the semicolon. Read on for an […]

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14 Feb

Northwestern students slam dean for anonymous sources

The dean of Northwestern University’s journalism school is being taken to task by some of the school’s students for using anonymous sources in a column he wrote in the Medill […]

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7 Feb

Afghan journalism student sentenced to death

The British newspaper The Independent has taken up the cause of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the Afghan student journalist sentenced to death after being accused of downloading an Internet report on women’s rights. Their online […]

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16 Jan

US J-School enrolments slow down

Freshman journalism and mass communication enrolments in the U.S. increased by only 2.2 per cent in 2006, according to an annual survey of j-schools published by Journalism Educator, while graduate-level […]

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