Archive
16 Mar

How to negotiate the best j-school offer

Rebecca Cheung offers tips for students faced with competing offers from graduate j-schools. (And you thought applying was difficult.) The hundreds of students who applied to graduate programs in journalism […]

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16 Feb

Using actors to teach journalism

Show don’t tell is a writing 101 rule, but Ryerson j-prof Anne McNeilly uses it in her teaching. Hiring an actor to stage a dramatic scene in class pushed the […]

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9 Feb

J-school faculty out of date

Are J-schools bad for the news business? A visiting professor at Ryerson University, Jeffrey Dvorkin asks the question this week on his blog. Dvorkin, a former chief journalist at CBC […]

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26 Jan

How I taught my students to think about the journalism they read

There’s no way students will read 5000-word articles every week, colleagues told Ryerson j-prof Bill Reynolds. But they did, and Reynolds learned that despite the various narcotics of the web, […]

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15 Dec

Six things all j-students need

I wonder, writes Ryerson University online journalism instructor Leigh Felesky, what students are being told “journalism” is these days. Felesky lays out six skill areas that j-schools should focus on […]

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9 Dec

An archive of audio stories

If you are looking for some outstanding, award-winning radio documentaries, you might find them at this online archive from Sound Portraits.

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9 Dec

A guide to digital storytelling from the BBC

This is a step by step guide from the BBC about how to produce digitial stories, which it defines as “mini-movies” or “short, personal, multimedia scraps of TV that people […]

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9 Dec

Teaching j-students to use social media

Looking for ideas about how to teach j-students to use social media in their reporting? Here’s a list of ten ways some j-schools are doing it from Mashable.com.

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8 Dec

Write or die: teaching students to write quickly

When teaching my students to write first drafts quickly, explains Mark Hamilton, the web-based tool Write or Die is a big help. It puts emphasis on the revision stage and […]

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1 Dec

Teaching accuracy takes more than punishing mistakes

Journalists are conditioned to fear and avoid mistakes but that doesn’t prevent errors, writes Craig Silverman. He lays out six fundamentals of teaching accuracy. During a recent talk at Ryerson […]

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