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23 Mar

Vast majority of newsroom managers are men: Global report

73% of the world’s top newsroom management jobs are held by men, a new study reports. The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media also found […]

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8 Mar

The UBC J-School faces a change in leadership

The Director of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, Mary Lynn Young, is leaving her job to take on a new role at the University. […]

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2 Mar

Call for papers: Public strategies for Canadian journalism

McGill, Concordia and Université Laval have put out a call for papers for a conference titled “Deliberation, Diversity, and Dollars: Public Strategies for Journalism in the Canadian Media Ecology“, to […]

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24 Feb

Teaching social media tools to j-students despite clunky classroom software

Journalism educators may want to teach social media tools but often find it difficult given they are required to use clunky online systems for grading and communicating with students. In […]

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24 Feb

Recent trends on university campuses are undermining value of university degrees

As universities everywhere focus on attracting and retaining students at a time when college-age populations are declining, they are not doing enough to ensure those students get a quality education, […]

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24 Feb

Professors beware: Perfectionism hurts research output

Professors who are perfectionists are less likely to produce and publish research, a new study concludes. “The more perfectionistic the professor, the less productive they are,” says a Dalhousie University […]

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23 Feb

Unique new graduate journalism program at King’s College

By Martha Troian A new Master of Journalism program offered at University of King’s College in Halifax aims to prepare students for an uncertain future. “Our world of journalism is […]

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16 Feb

5 principles for teaching journalism ethics in the digital age

Our global media ecology is a chaotic landscape evolving at a furious pace. Professional journalists share the journalistic sphere with tweeters, bloggers, citizen journalists and social media users around the […]

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14 Feb

Call for papers: covering Canadian crimes

The University of Western Ontario has put out a call for papers for a text that will examine the link between journalism and crime as it evolves in a changing […]

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24 Jan

Why Canada needs more media analysis education

<p>We should be teaching our children how to understand news spin and "infortainment", writes Geoff Johnson in an article for <a href="http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=c34b5b39-c1ce-4aeb-8896-66cea19d5eb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Victoria Times Colonist</span></a>. Media analysis courses should be added to high school social studies lessons, giving kids the "opportunity to watch and discuss the same news story as reported from several different points of view, even from U.S. and Canadian perspectives," he writes.<br />

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