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1 May

Spirit Dancing: How two UBC students gained access to report on this secretive Aboriginal tradition

<p><em>The University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism offers a one-of-a-kind class on Reporting in Indigenous Communities.</em> <em>Developed in partnership with several B.C. Aboriginal communities, the course is designed to elevate Canada's not-so-great coverage of</em> <em>Aboriginal issues and focuses on a specific theme.

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24 Apr

Protecting playgrounds for the rich: The Conservative government’s omnibus budget bill gave “cottages” in certain Conservative ridings special treatment

<p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15.987500190734863px; font-size: 10px;">By Glen McGregor, for Media Magazine</strong></p>

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24 Apr

The emergence of the market for data-journalism skills

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By David McKie</strong></p>

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23 Apr

Five free visualization tools recommended by Global’s data desk

<p><a href="http://j-source.ca/article/global%E2%80%99s-data-journalism-team-%E2%80%9C-first%E2%80%9D-canada">Global News data desk</a> journalist <a href="http://www.patrickcain.ca/">Patrick Cain</a> outlines his favourite five free data journalism tools:</p><p><strong>1/ Google Fusion Tables</strong></p>

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22 Apr

Is the media coverage of York University fair? Analyzing the many reports of sexual assaults on campus

<p><strong>By Josh Dehaas, Editor of <em>Maclean's On Campus</em></strong></p>

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19 Apr

Best practices for community newsrooms

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p>

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28 Aug

Five questions for Kim Kierans on teaching journalists in the Philippines

<p><em>Every summer for the last six years, Kim Kierans has travelled to the Philippines to teach working journalists new skills and help them develop old ones. <strong>Angelina Irinici</strong> finds out what unique challenges these journalists face in terms of ethics and press freedom and why Kierans’ biggest desire is to become obsolete. </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-right inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-right/images/Kierans1.PNG" title="" /></p>

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22 Aug

Back to School: Instructors’ resources edition

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>J-Source has compiled this vast list of resources for journalism instructors to use in their classrooms. We’ve broken it down into three categories: <strong>The Basics</strong> (reporting, writing, interviewing and ethics), <strong>Broadcast/Visual Journalism</strong> (audio, video and photography) and <strong>New Media</strong> (social media, blogging, data visualization and multimedia storytelling).</p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: New Media

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: Broadcast/visual journalism

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p>

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