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23 Nov

Getting the story wrong

<p><em><strong>Hayden Kenez </strong>tuned in to NewsTalk 1010 last week only to hear Christie Blatchford tell the world he called her a douchebag. How one student journalist learned the hard way how damaging the media can be when they get the story wrong. </em></p>

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22 Nov

Calling all science writers

<p>The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is looking for great story ideas about the cutting-edge science being conducted in institutions across the country. If you’re a student in a journalism or science communications program in Canada, this is your chance to get creative and get funded to produce a compelling piece of science journalism.</p><p>Check out the <a href="http://www.innovation.ca/en/mediaroom/emerging/">Canada Foundation for Innovation</a> website for more info.</p>

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22 Nov

How to be a journalist in 2011

<p>Multimedia journalist Lauren Rae Orsini, 24, won a contest at Forbes.com this summer and wrote a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2011/06/28/how-to-be-a-journalist-in-2011/">guest post</a> for the site titled "How to Be a Journalist in 2011." She recounts her experiences working at an anime convention in Washington, D.C., at which she dressed in costumes to better relate to her subjects.</p><p>Orsini advises young journalists to think outside the box and make up their own rules.  </p>

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30 Oct

Briarpatch launches writing contest

<p>Briarpatch is pleased to announce our first annual creative writing contest! We are now accepting submissions of original, unpublished writing in the categories of short fiction and creative non-fiction (memoir, personal essay, literary journalism). With award-winning author Lee Maracle as our judge and $600 in cash prizes to give away, this opportunity is not to be missed! The deadline for entry is December 1, 2011. For full contest details check out <a href="http://briarpatchmagazine.com/">briarpatchmagazine.com</a></p>

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26 Oct

Call for submissions: Speak Magazine

<p>It's that time of year again: Speak magazine's annual call for submissions. This year Speak is being headed by the University of Regina's jhr Chapter, with support from faculty and students from the University of Regina's School of Journalism and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.</p>

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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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5 Oct

The Rights Check-up: first edition podcast

<p><em>A group of <a href="http://jhrconcordia.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concordia journalism</a> students delve into the role social media and journalism can play in preventing mass atrocities and genocide in the premier edition of this Journalists for Human Rights "Rights Check-up" podcast. Run time is just under one hour. This podcast was originally broadcast on <a href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/journalists-human-rights/2011/10/jhr-rights-check-1-human-rights-and-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rabble.ca </a></em></p><p> </p>

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4 Oct

A new fellowship for foreign reporting

<p>It's a unique opportunity for any Canadian journalist or graduate student who wants to pursue a significant foreign story and needs the money to do it.</p>

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21 Sep

Ryerson students get a special lesson in investigative reporting

<div>By Carys Mills, Mariana Ionova, Alexandra Bosanac, Liam McGowan, Shaheer Choudhury and Marta Iwanek</div><p>The idea for our story came from a series of articles in Canadian newspapers in 2009. They covered the Ministry of Education's introduction of the "P" notation, which helped flag individual grades from private schools taken by public school students.

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14 Sep

Five questions for Duncan McCue

<p><em>University of British Columbia graduate school j-prof <strong>Duncan McCue</strong> is spearheading the school's brand new, one-of-a-kind journalism course, "Reporting in Indigenous Communities". Developed in partnership with several B.C. aboriginal communities, the course is designed to elevate Canada's not-so-great coverage of aboriginal issues.

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