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6 May

G-day for j-schoolers

For many j-schoolers, graduation day will be here before you know it.  Here’s a few things you can do to improve your game before G-day hits. Mark S. Luckie of […]

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3 May

The choice before us

Every week during spring and summer, J-Source will feature an article from the spring and summer issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Have you picked up your copies yet? […]

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28 Apr

AP style guide updates web lingo

Last week the Associated Press announced it had updated its style guide to “website” from the now-outdated “Web site”. The interweb has been a-twitter with the news ever since. (Oh, […]

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27 Apr

If the big guys arent going to save journalism, we may as well do it ourselves

This past semester, second-year master of journalism students at Ryerson University spent six hours a week “saving journalism.” Or at least that’s what everyone called “Journalism Workshop”. Some focused on […]

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27 Apr

On the eve of destruction

The spring and summer issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism have finally arrived. Starting with Matthew Halliday’s up-close-and-personal profile of Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse, J-Source will feature […]

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27 Apr

How to save (censored) journalism

Iran’s media censorship inspired a class of Canadian journalism students to create Tehran-To.ca: a multimedia news portal that embraces social media and digital content as they cover post-election Iran, Jenny […]

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20 Apr

Can the web save ailing school papers?

Though often overlooked in favour of triple-digit layoffs at brand name national papers, college and university newspapers are for the most part hurting just as much as their mainstream media […]

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20 Apr

Community papers weather the storm

Amidst the barrage of reports and statistics on dropping readership and circulation at newspapers across North America, there is one bright spot in Canadian journalism: community newspapers. Gregory Sawisky examines […]

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14 Apr

Student journalism WIN

Last week, The College of New Jersey’s student paper, The Perspective, published an interview with Mike Huckabee, in which the former Governor of Arkansas said some colourful things about same-sex […]

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14 Apr

Newspaper readership up among youth

The under-35 set has always been a tough grab for newspapers and the evening news alike, but, despite talks of the decline of newspapers, a new study shows that readership […]

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