Archive
17 Oct

News writing: the basics

A news story doesn’t begin with the first interview or the opening paragraph. It starts with background research. The Canadian University Press breaks down newswriting for beginner journalists in this […]

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17 Oct

Getting to know the student paper

So you’ve walked into your student newspaper office. You’ve spoken with an editor or two and maybe even been assigned a story. Now what? The Canadian University Press provides the […]

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9 Oct

CUP launches student journalism podcast

Canadian University Press has launched CUPcast. Featuring interviews with student journalists from Wolfville, NS to Victoria, BC, the CUPcast is a weekly collection of post-secondary and student-relevant news drawn from the […]

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3 Sep

J-School Confidential

Mediabistro.com has started a new series, to run throughout the 2007 year: J-School Confidential, filed by media experts in the making. The series will feature a rotating cast of emerging […]

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3 Sep

Where Peter Gzowski got his start

As editor-in-chief of The Varsity in 1957, the late Peter Gzowski began a career that would touch millions around the world. His work there was featured in a chapter of […]

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30 Aug

Freshman fever

Graphic: James Bouthillier, c/o The Link at Concordia University. In this piece for Globe & Mail’s 2005 “University Report,” Concordia sophomore journalism student Catherine Sherriffs offers frosh a glimpse of […]

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27 Aug

Summer interns sprout, grow, blossom

Saskatoon StarPhoenix arts columnist Cam Fuller reflects on his many years working with summer interns. An intern himself in the 1970s he waxes poetic about how some things have changed […]

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25 Aug

UWO paper loses independence over spoof issue

Maclean’s on the Board of Governors at the University of Western Ontario decision in May to prevent on-campus distribution and withhold student fees from their student paper, the Gazette. 

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20 Aug

J-schools need to re-invent themselves to teach students relevant skills

Dan Gillmor, a leading online journalist and advocate of citizen journalism, offers his ideas about how journalism schools are not keeping pace with the new demands of the re-invented world […]

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16 Aug

BTW, can I quote you on that?

QUESTION: Can I use quotes from e-mail listservs and online newsgroups in my articles? What people have to say in these online forums is often really interesting and colourful. These […]

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