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26 Sep

YouTube and Pulitzer team up for contest

Citizen journalists around the world are being given the chance to strut their journalistic stuff online, with Project: Report, a journalism contest that YouTube and the Pulitzer Center have cooked […]

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18 Sep

A Twitter Style Guide?

Students at Columbia University recently used Twitter- where messages no longer than 140 characters are sent to other members and in this case, posted online- to cover a presidential forum […]

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18 Sep

Science journalist in residence at UBC

The University of British Columbia appointed its first “science journalist in residence” this year. Nicola Jones was a graduate of the first class at UBC’s School of Journalism in 2000. […]

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16 Sep

CUPE fights firings

The Canadian Union of Public Employees- that’s CUPE to you- is fighting the firing of two employees at Ryerson University’s CKLN radio station.According to CUPE, management at the student-supported campus […]

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14 Sep

Election issues at UBC

This is what’s affecting student voters at the University of British Columbia.Looks like tuition, the environment, and the 2010 Olympics are at the top of the list. What do you […]

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11 Sep

The election, all mapped out

Professors at Laurier University have launched an interactive website to monitor and analyze the federal election using maps, blogs, graphs, and tables.That’s right: a federal election tracker. Want to know […]

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11 Sep

J-students to work with Ottawa Sun team on election night

A group of ten second-year journalism students in Algonquin College‘s journalism program will be joining the Ottawa Sun’s team of reporters on election night. Joe Banks, a cooordinator of the […]

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3 Sep

To explain, is to inform

Jay Rosen teaches journalism at NYU, and is a key figure in the American journalism blogosphere. His blog, PressThink, has recorded over two million visitors since 2007, and he also […]

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3 Sep

The art of the interview

Considering summer JUST officially ended, it may be early yet to start thinking about next summer’s job. Then again, maybe not. A lot of internships begin asking for applications in […]

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2 Sep

A journalist’s toolbox

Upon entering journalism school, every student is a journalist-in-training. This means thinking, acting and working as a journalist. Former journalism professor Don Gibb suggests all students look in the mirror […]

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