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7 Feb

Toronto radio station has licence revoked

A community radio station has had its licence revoked by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. CKLN-FM breached “numerous regulations and conditions of licence” and failed to involve the local […]

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4 Feb

Pros vs. joes

During the chaos of the G20 summit, news came from many sources–some credible, some incredible. Has journalism degenerated into amateur hour? This week, we feature Michelle Medford‘s story from the […]

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31 Jan

Applications open for Canadian Journalism Fellowships

Massey College and the University of Toronto have opened applications for their Canadian Journalism Fellowships, which go from September 2010 to April 2012. The application deadline is March 1. Fellows […]

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28 Jan

Thinking of photocopying that j-text? Think again

<p>Hey, journalism students, is your required j-textbook not on the schools buy-back list this semester?<br /><br />For many students, this is indeed the case. In the ongoing battle of expensive books, university and college students on a budget are always on the hunt for a cheaper version of their course texts. But if all is not done legally, then troubles are bound to arise.<br /><br />The RCMP arrested 13 people from four photocopy stores in Montréal last Thursday after finding 2,700 counterfeit university textbooks worth $540,000.<br />

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27 Jan

New scholarship for medical TV and radio news stories

The Radio Television News Directors Foundation has announced a new national scholarship to recognize the vital role journalists play in informing the public about health issues and holding policy makers […]

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24 Jan

How to stop misspelling names

Mallary Jean Tenore is a frequent victim of journalism’s sixth most prevalent mistake: misspelled names. In an article for Poynter, she explains why journalists get names wrong, and how to […]

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24 Jan

Why Canada needs more media analysis education

<p>We should be teaching our children how to understand news spin and "infortainment", writes Geoff Johnson in an article for <a href="http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=c34b5b39-c1ce-4aeb-8896-66cea19d5eb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Victoria Times Colonist</span></a>. Media analysis courses should be added to high school social studies lessons, giving kids the "opportunity to watch and discuss the same news story as reported from several different points of view, even from U.S. and Canadian perspectives," he writes.<br />

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11 Jan

UWO grad wins the “Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism”

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced the winners of this year’s duPont Award, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in broadcast journalism — and one of them is a […]

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10 Jan

Metro Morning: Goodnight, Andy. Good morning, Matt.

Andy Barrie was the voice of CBC Radio Toronto for 15 years. He helped take it to the top. Can his successor, the subdued Matt Galloway, keep it there as […]

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4 Jan

Tom Hanson Photojournalism internship deadline Jan 7

<p>The<a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/awards_tomhanson" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award</a> offers a young photojournalist the chance to break into the business and perform on the national stage through a six-week internship with The Canadian Press. The deadline for the 2011 award is January 7.<br /><img align="Baseline" alt="By Adrien Veczan" border="0" height="301" hspace="0" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/g20.jpg" title="By Adrien Veczan" vspace="5" width="448" />

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