Archive
19 Nov

Is it time to ditch the YCJA?

Many questions and controversies have popped up in the years since the Young Offenders Act came about in 1984 (and continued when the act was replaced in 2003 by the […]

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15 Nov

Student journalists knee-deep in swine flu reporting

The H1N1 reporting craze is taking over journalism schools south of the border as well as in Canada. Some University of Southern California journalism students are currently lobbying a number […]

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15 Nov

Apostrophes and you

The apostrophe is a tricky devil, arguably the trickiest bit of punctuation the English language offers. (And there are some doozies; semi-colons, anyone?) If you find yourself constantly second-guessing whether […]

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10 Nov

Canwests do what the sergeant says training for war reporting

Most news organizations send reporters for special hostile environment training to prepare for Afghanistan, but in his article “College for Killing Fields,” King’s Journalism Review reporter Geoff Davies learned that […]

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10 Nov

Twitter 101

Journalism is changing, and one journalism school is right there updating its coursework to keep up. Griffith University in Australia has recently made Twitter education a requirement for its journalism […]

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3 Nov

Ryan Sholins advice to journalism students: master one “analog” skill and one “digital” skill

The web is taking over, no doubt, but it’s important to not put all your eggs in that basket and retain and hone some of the core journalistic skills you’re […]

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29 Oct

Ditch the adjectives

“Show don’t tell” can be a difficult concept for a young journalism students to grasp, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of peppering your writing with adjectives in […]

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26 Oct

Craig Silverman offers advice on avoiding errors in news writing

In the days and months leading up to the United States presidential election of 1948, all of the pollsters were reporting the same thing: Thomas E. Dewey was a shoe-in […]

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23 Oct

Can Derek Webster save RD? The RRJ reports

Reader’s Digest Canada has over six million readers and an ambitious new editor hired from one of the country’s most daring small magazines. Ryerson Review of  Journalism reporter Matthew Halliday […]

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19 Oct

Want a job? Get out of the city

Toronto is the centre of the universe. Or something like that. Big cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal undoubtedly have well more than their fair share of media outlets, but […]

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