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27 Jan

JHM Award winners announced

The JHM Awards of Excellence in Student Journalism were announced at a gala in Ottawa this week. These awards were envisioned to be similar in character to the National Newspaper […]

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16 Jan

US J-School enrolments slow down

Freshman journalism and mass communication enrolments in the U.S. increased by only 2.2 per cent in 2006, according to an annual survey of j-schools published by Journalism Educator, while graduate-level […]

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7 Jan

Business: The big challenge for the next generation of hacks

In The Guardian, Jeff Jarvis reflects on a course he taught on journalism entrepreneurship at City University of New York. His students created business plans for a dozen sustainable journalistic […]

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27 Nov

A guide to choosing the right journalism school or program

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19 Nov

Is there money in a journalism career?

QUESTION: I am writing to you on behalf of my partner, who changed careers about two years ago and is now pursuing a career in journalism. His focus is on […]

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6 Nov

Learning Kosovo

by Kinia Adamczyk Three years ago, I first visited Croatia. The hospitality and kindness I experienced there always fascinated me. These people, I knew, had suffered extreme hardship during the […]

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31 Oct

Programmer-journalist: a new job title

Matt Waite discusses his new job title: news-technologist. “It’s scary looking code I didn’t understand yesterday,” Waite writes on his blog. “And then, really, it’s all journalism. No matter how […]

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17 Oct

Journalism students are lazy

Mark Bonokoski, a columnist with the Toronto Sun, discusses how nothing beats the personal touch, how journalism students are increasingly becoming lazy, and how to get into the business.

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17 Oct

CUP guide to self-editing

Self-editing can be the most annoying and pointless step in the writing process if it is not done correctly. If you do it right, though, your editors will love you […]

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17 Oct

Carl Wilson on writing a good lede

Journalism, H.L. Mencken once said, is literature in a hurry. As an instant novelist, then, every sentence you write should grab the reader’s interest, impart vital information, clarify obscure angles […]

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