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23 Aug

Back to school advice for J-students

Start building your audience now. Understand that your journalism career started when you first posted anything to the Web and that j-school is about helping you improve it. So, conduct […]

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11 Aug

U.S. J-School considers a professional fee

The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkley is considering a new, professional fee for its program. The School is considering charging its new students an additional $5,000 […]

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11 Aug

J-school applications drop in Ontario

<p>by Peter Johansen and Mary McGuire</p><p>Applications to Ontario's degree programs in Journalism are down compared to this time last year, according to data released last month by the Ontario Universities Application Centre in Guelph. The number of confirmed admissions is also slightly down across the four schools that are part of the OUAC program grouping for Journalism.</p><p>Heres the picture in a nutshell:</p>

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10 Aug

Sharing course syllabi

When preparing to teach a journalism course, especially for the first time, it’s always helpful to find out what other j-educators do who teach the same kind of course. Now Poynter’s […]

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28 Jul

New course for war correspondents

A new course to train journalists entering conflict zones will be offered by Athabasca University from September 15 to October 31. The field experience course will include francophone troops, and […]

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23 Jul

Ryerson continuing ed introduces web magazine publishing

Ryerson University’s Chang School of Continuing Education will expand its magazine publishing program to include web publishing, D.B. Scott reports. The school has broadened the scope and the name of […]

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20 Jul

UBC J-Students nominated for an Emmy

It’s a video journalist’s dream to be nominated for an Emmy. Now, it’s a dream come true for a group of students studying to be journalists at the University of […]

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29 Jun

A new style guide for web writing

Yahoo has decided it’s time for an alternative to traditional style guides when it comes to text written for the Web. In July, 2010, it will launch The Yahoo! Style Guide: The […]

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4 Jun

Ryerson appoints interim chair for School of Journalism

Ryerson journalism professor Suanne Kelman has been appointed interim chair to the university’s School of Journalism effective July 1st. The announcement came after Ryerson announced it had failed to appoint […]

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30 Mar

To tweet or not to tweet?

Last Monday, Carleton University’s School of Journalism participated in a class experiment in Twitter. As result, the school’s political reporting course topped Twitter’s Canadian trends for the day. But is […]

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