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14 Sep

Textbook for potential j-students

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Lisa Bruni" border="0" height="118" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Lisa%20Bruni.jpg" title="Lisa Bruni" width="100" />Peter Steven's new book, The News, uses current case studies to explore the state of online news,  international and investigative coverage and Canadian news production in the wake of the economic meltdown, writes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lisa Bruni</span>. </span><br />

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10 Sep

Junod on the story that changed his writing

In 1995, Tom Junod wrote a compelling but disturbing story about a serial rapist. Now, he says that “The Rapist Says He’s Sorry changed my writing, and then it changed […]

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2 Sep

Media management program for executives

The Canadian Journalism Foundation and Rotman School of Management has revamped their Media Management Executive Education program, registration ends Sept. 30. The full press release: Veteran media professionals and U.S.-based […]

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31 Aug

How to teach social media in J-school

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Social media is so new, it's easy to claim you're an expert on the subject. But some journalism professors are finding ways to teach the new medium as part of the curriculum, writes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alfred Hermida</span>. </span><br />

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27 Aug

J-school to close at one U.S. university

<p>The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2010/08/25/cu-boulder-committee-study-future-journalism-course-and-degree-offerings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a statement on its website</a>, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology and has set up an exploratory committee to help it do that.<br />

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27 Aug

J-School offers no job guarantees

A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want – a job in journalism.  […]

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25 Aug

What you missed at AEJMC 2010

Didn’t make it to the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Denver earlier this month? Christina Mueller reports on what today’s j-education leaders are saying. […]

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24 Aug

Replacing textbooks with an iPad

<p>It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine  interacting with the content through quizzes and other feature or highlighting text for others to see and sharing comments on passages with classmates.<br />Those are some of the things promised by a new textbook application for the iPad that some universities in the U.S. began using this week.</p>

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24 Aug

Exceptional multimedia student projects

If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It’s a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author […]

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23 Aug

Banning laptops in media classes without being a Luddite

<p>A new media journalism professor in the U.S. has decided to ban laptops in some of his media classes. <br />Jeremy Littau says he loves technology, but the evidence is building that student test scores improve in classes where laptops are banned. He is also concerned about what he calls "the halo effect."<br />

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