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3 Feb

I don’t get misty-eyed over newsprint, says Graeme Smith

By Chantal Braganza Graeme Smith has a humble proposition: possibly, maybe, a way to save journalism from the online threat. While in reality, he insists, “I’m just a stupid reporter, […]

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29 Jan

Twitterific, Twittertastic

For those who are still getting used to Google news, we have some for you: it’s all about the Twitter. You know, Twitter, that quick hit one-liner social messaging system […]

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15 Jan

Calling out the mainstream media on Native issues

Dominique Jarry-Shore, a journalism student in Concordia University’s one-year graduate diploma program, spent a week last summer working at Eastern Door–a weekly newspaper for Mohawk First Nation reserve of Kahnawake. […]

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14 Jan

RRJ interview with Don Sellar

There was plenty to talk about last year in journalism circles, including the CBC ombudsman’s report on Heather Mallick’s incendiary column on cbc.ca and CTV’s airing of false starts during […]

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7 Jan

The future of journalism by G. Stuart Adam

This text, written by Carleton University’s advanced print professor G. Stuart Adam, sparked some lively discussion in a recent class. (It was originally written as an email for an American […]

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7 Jan

Strung along: Are Afghan fixers getting a raw deal?

As the eyes and ears of international news agencies, Afghan journalists negotiate some of the most dangerous terrain in the world, writes Ashley Walters in the Ryerson Review of Journalism […]

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7 Jan

How to land a job in journalism

UBC journalism professor and online media guru Alfred Hermida compiles some sound advice for students and job seekers about preparing for the job hunt in this post on reportr.net. A […]

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6 Jan

A journalist, not a newspaper(wo)man

It’s a question that hangs on the lips of every impending journalism school graduate (including this one): what’s the outlook?The answer, according to Joe Grimm, a visiting journalist at the […]

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6 Jan

Resolutions for a better (and more journalistic) you

Network. Pitch. Twitter. Read. Buy people lunch. This two-part blog post comes from copy editor/ San Jose journalism student Suzanne Yada, replete with resolutions for j-schoolers and beyond. The first […]

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17 Dec

Brunswick News Inc. vs. the Carleton Free Press

A year after it launched, the independent Carleton FreePress closed down in October. As Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Christal Gardiola discovered, that’s left a paper owned by the powerful […]

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