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26 Jan

Free newspapers! Get your free newspapers here!

An MP in Scotland is plotting to offer a free one-year newspaper subscription to all young people in an effort to foster long-term readerships. In a column for The Scotsman, […]

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26 Jan

Flexibility equals success in tough job market

Five UBC journalism grads found success after j-school. Alfred Hermida explains how. Stephanie Lim is a bright twenty-something who graduated top of her class in May 2009 from the UBC […]

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20 Jan

J-schooler opposes potential college strike, strikes out

By Matthew Hayles A 20,000-strong Facebook protest led by a Humber College journalism student failed to prevent professors from giving a strike mandate to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union […]

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19 Jan

Five things to learn and memorize before leaving j-school

Adam Tinworth recently posted a slideshow to One Man and His Blog: “Five things I have learnt in…3 years, 6 months, 13 days (etc)” It’s five slides of advice that’s […]

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19 Jan

Mainstream media + j-school = BFF?

The New York Times announced recently that it plans to team up with The City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and use the students to cover areas […]

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14 Jan

Always be ready to cover a disaster

It’s likely that few journalism students worry about acquiring the skills needed to cover a large-scale disaster, like the earthquake in Haiti, but these situations come on fast and without […]

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13 Jan

UBC j-school teams with investigative journalism project

The University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has become the first journalism school in Canada to sign on with DocumentCloud, a new project that aims to index and […]

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13 Jan

Words to kick to the curb in 2010

Great words and phrases have a way of quickly becoming overused, misused and all-around annoying. Particularly irked by this is Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, which […]

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4 Jan

Can Metro Toronto put out a strong paper without staff writers?

Metro Toronto, the biggest commuter paper in the country, has the smallest number of reporters. None, actually, writes reporter and J-Source Students’ Lounge editor Melissa Wilson in a story for […]

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22 Dec

Starting from scratch: how to launch a news website

With only months to go before I enter a hurting job market, I’m hungry for all the advice that I can get from seasoned professionals. The one bit of guidance […]

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