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19 Oct

Durham College prof launches social networking site for journalism students

Journalism schools can become a bit of an in-crowd. Students are tight with each other but get very few opportunities to connect with someone from another school. A Durham College […]

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15 Oct

Make your cover letter dress to impress

When you’re on the job hunt, the cover letter you attach to your resume will give employers their first impression of you. So you better make it great. Here are […]

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14 Oct

RTNDF offers new scholarship for broadcast journalism students

RTNDF, the foundation arm of The Association of Electronic Journalists, has established a new scholarship for broadcast journalism students. Funded by 660 News in Calgary, the scholarship will be called […]

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13 Oct

Are you checking sure?

There was no time to be flustered, remembers Christal Gardiola in this new journalist’s essay on her first foray into the world of magazine fact-checking. National Post columnist Nathalie Atkinson […]

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9 Oct

A few great tips to survive the interview season

It’s interview season. This is the time of year that students are (quite often) thrown to the wolves and made to stick their noses in someone else’s business. But the […]

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6 Oct

Wanna cover the Olympics? Win a job at the Globe

The Globe and Mail has launched Journalism Dream Contest, a search for one amateur reporter and one amateur photographer to cover the Olympics for the company. According to to a […]

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5 Oct

Canadian Living adds payment for recently announced internship program

When Canadian Living announced its new journalism contest/internship program last month, which included a writing contest and an unpaid internship for the winner, it was met with a wave of […]

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3 Oct

What journalism students can learn from Twitter

Every social media pundit is talking about what social media apps like Twitter are doing to the journalism industry as a whole, but there are some important lessons that Twitter […]

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29 Sep

DIY journalism: A solution for the unemployed and underemployed

Jobs are scarce. That’s no secret. If you’ve recently graduated, you’re probably still on the hunt for your dream job, and if you’re still in school, you’re probably constantly haunted […]

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24 Sep

Now’s a great time to be in journalism if you’re 24

Young journalists just out of school are in demand a lot more than previous year’s graduates, said Rem Rieder, who recently spoke at a Canadian Journalism Association event on the […]

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