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23 Jul

New journalism program launched in Ontario

<p>By Angelina Irinici</p>

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20 Jun

How to turn an internship into a journalism job

<p>A journalism internship is like a first date; it can be a horrendous nightmare you’d rather forget (think the unpaid internship complete with coffee runs, phone answering and no recognition) or the beginning of something great (gaining amazing experience, making valuable connections and most important of all, getting hired — yes, <em>hired</em>).

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15 Jun

CPJ Steiger Fellowship launched

<p> </p><p>The <a href="http://cpj.org/about/jobs.php">Committee to Protect Journalists</a> has launched a six-month Fellowship to honour Paul Steiger, former chair of CPJ.</p><p>It’s designed for students and young journalists who are interested in projects related to press freedom and freedom of expression. The Fellow will carry out an independent project on press freedom while supporting CPJ staff and working on a variety of topics.</p><p>It’s a paid position, but proper documentation to work in the United States is required.</p>

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4 Jun

Algorithm reporting: Is it a matter of ‘if’ or ‘when?’

<p>It seems that there is some new gadget for everything these days, all promising to make our lives increasingly easier. (You know, “there’s an app for that.”)</p>

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29 May

If you build it, will they pay?

<p><em>The New York Times may be reporting moderate success with this attempt at its paywall but, well, it's The New York Times. According to <strong>Jeff Fraser</strong>, if Canadian newspapers implementing paywalls — Postmedia's The Ottawa Citizen and The Globe and Mail most notably — are to succeed, they're going to have to establish their value all over again.</em></p><p><strong>An opinion piece by Jeff Fraser</strong></p>

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16 May

RTDNF announces scholarship winners

<p>The Radio Television News Directors Foundation of Canada has awarded nine scholarships to journalism students across the country. </p><p>Scholarships each boast a $2,000 cash prize plus registration at the <a href="http://www.rtndacanada.com/CONFERENCE/default.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual RTDNA conference</a> (which will be held June 21-23 in Toronto this year). The exception to this is the George Clark scholarship for the overall winning entry, which will receive $2,500, and its winner will be announced at the conference. </p>

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6 May

Student journalist draws lessons for media from her own tragedy and how it was covered

<p>Third-year journalism student, Laura Nicholson, <a href="http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=d510cc30-4e7e-4632-8009-66ca1a45a4e9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vivdly recalls</a> the murder-suicide that left her an orphan and what she wished the journalists covering the event and aftermath would have done:  "be sensitive to the reputations of the dead. Even though they are not alive to defend themselves, the family is left to pick up the pieces of emotional turmoil as a result of false information."</p>

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1 May

UBC Indigenous Reporting class examines health and healing in Aboriginal communities

<p><a href="http://www.indigenouscommunities.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/indigenous communities.PNG" title="" /></a></p><p>Duncan McCue and a class of University of British Columbia journalism graduate students have produced eight feature stories that seek to not further perpetuate stereotypes and show that there is more to Aboriginal communities than problem people and discouraging statistics—there are solutions within these communities, too.  </p>

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13 Apr

Resources for j-students at the CAJ Conference

<p> </p><p>Attention all j-students and recent grads: The upcoming Canadian Association of Journalists Conference has some sessions that may be of interest to you. There are tips for job seekers, networking sessions, and career panels with network executives, along with sessions that will help you develop skills you need to break into the industry.</p>

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10 Apr

A journalist is a journalist, student or not: Why j-students have ethics codes too

<p><em>The job of a journalism school includes providing its students with a solid journalistic ethical foundation. <strong>Rhiannon Russell</strong> compares the student ethics codes of institutions across the country—from UBC all the way to King's—and with explanation from directors and professors at some of Canada's most well-known journalism schools, lays out why, when it comes down to it, the rules of the game are the same for everyone, student or not.</em></p><p> </p>

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