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19 Dec

A different kind of j-school: Teaching journalism to specialists, rather than the other way around

<p><em>You can't cultivate strong specialty journalism by using a general j-school curriculum. Rather, you must teach the specialists the art of journalism. The University of Toronto's new certificate program looks to do just that.

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13 Oct

U of T launches new post-graduate journalism program

<p>A new and different post-graduate journalism program has just been launched at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.</p><p><a href="http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/journalism/">The program’s website </a> states that it is seeking 10 people who have some expertise in a subject and want to provide coverage of that subject in the global media.</p>

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21 Sep

Ryerson students get a special lesson in investigative reporting

<div>By Carys Mills, Mariana Ionova, Alexandra Bosanac, Liam McGowan, Shaheer Choudhury and Marta Iwanek</div><p>The idea for our story came from a series of articles in Canadian newspapers in 2009. They covered the Ministry of Education's introduction of the "P" notation, which helped flag individual grades from private schools taken by public school students.

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1 Sep

Carleton’s Rwanda Initiative ends

<p>An exchange program that allowed many Carleton University journalism students to do internships in Rwanda over the last five years has been suspended.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lack+funds+scuttles+Carleton+Rwanda+journalism+exchange/5340257/story.html"><em>Ottawa Citizen </em>reports that the program known as the Rwanda Initiative was suspended for lack of funds</a>.</p>

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31 Aug

Teaching journalism in an age when news comes to you

<p><em>Centennial College journalist in residence <strong>Lynne Russell</strong> examines the difficulties of teaching the latest crop of j-students -- many of whom believe their smart phones hold the keys to truth. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/08/teaching-journalism-in-an-age-when-news-comes-to-you234">This article originally appeared on PBS MediaShift</a>.</em></p>

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26 Aug

Tenure track position open at Concordia

<p>The Department of Journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec invites applications for one tenure-track position in Journalism Studies. Candidates must be able to contribute to the department in three areas: teaching, research and administrative service. Specifically, candidates must be able to teach both academic and production courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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26 Aug

Full-time prof for new BCS degree program at Grant MacEwan

<p>Grant MacEwan University's Centre for the Arts and Communications (CFAC) is seeking a Journalism faculty member to teach in the Bachelor of Communication Studies (BCS) degree program and to provide leadership in the implementation of this new degree.<br /><br /> MacEwan offers over 70 different credentials (including seven baccalaureate degrees) to more than 40,000 students on four campuses in Edmonton, Alberta, one of Canada's most diverse, culturally advanced and economically vibrant cities.<br />

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3 Aug

J-schools and the digital age

<p>Journalism educators everywhere are struggling to keep up with the rapid changes taking place in newsrooms and the media industry. <a href="http://merrill.umd.edu/">The University of Maryland's Philip Meril College of Journalism </a>is hosting a conference in October to bring journalists and educators together to discuss how well journalism schools are meeting the digital challenge.</p>

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28 Jun

One j-student explains why she will no longer work for free

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">It's time for media companies to stop offering unpaid internships, says a journalism student, </span><strong style="font-style: italic;">Bethany Horne</strong><span style="font-style: italic;">. The only students who can afford to work for free the summer, she says, are those lucky enough to come from families with money. That's no way to bring diverse voices or fresh perspectives into a newsroom. </span><br />

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24 Jun

One journalist scorns the advice that j-students should “brand” themselves

<p>A journalism student who wrote to a Washington Post columnist recently to ask how he built his "personal brand" got a very public and provocative response. Gene Weingarten wrote a column condemning the way "branding" is ruining journalism and criticizing the professor who issued the assignment.</p><p>"The best way to build a brand is to take a three-foot length of malleable iron and get one end red-hot. Then, apply it vigorously to the buttocks of the instructor who gave you this question. You want a nice, meaty sizzle," he wrote.</p>

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