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1 Apr

Look! A donation!

Kenneth W. Baldwin Jr., a retired editor, has donated $500, 000 to the University of South Carolina to establish the Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Endowment Fund. Baldwin told Greenville […]

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19 Mar

10 tips for freelancers

By Julia Kilpatrick 1. Research. Do enough interviews before you pitch a story to make sure it’s really a story. You don’t want to get commissioned to write a story […]

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8 Mar

Blogging the Barrier Reef

Linda Hoang may soon be blogging from the Great Barrier Reef. The 19-year-old journalism student from Grant MacEwan College is one of 50 candidates shortlisted for an “island caretaker” job […]

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8 Mar

Student rag resolves strike

Student journalists at the University of Oregon’s newspaper the Oregon Daily Emerald are expected to resume work on Monday after going on strike last week over editorial independence. The dispute […]

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2 Mar

Afghan journalists fight to get the news out

ByVictoria Wells When Ahmad Zia went back to Afghanistan to work as a journalist for the newspaper Kabul Weekly, he knew he wanted to help rebuild the country. And journalism […]

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25 Feb

Small college media have feelings too

This excellent post on the PBS blog “MediaShift”, comes from Bryan Murley, an assistant professor of new and emerging media at Eastern Illinois University. He lists five challenges facing smaller […]

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25 Feb

Networking in real time

The economy is down, jobs are scarce and hope for that internship you wanted is slowly fading because a) they might be cutting back and b) they also might not […]

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17 Feb

Niche markets: the saviour of journalism?

ByJohn Van DusenThe second-year MJ students have been given an ultimatum: Find a new business model for future media or else you won’t graduate. Seasoned veteran of the Globe and […]

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13 Feb

J-students building online profile

Alfred Hermida has this advice for his UBC journalism students: snatch up your name as a domain name and start establishing your professional digital identity. Hermida, writing on the PBS […]

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5 Feb

Interning at Brutal World Inc.

By Laura Stone “Man, I feel bad for your class. Not a good time to be graduating from j-school.” So began an email I received the other day from a […]

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