Archive
20 Apr

J-profs and j-students rate each other

A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with […]

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19 Apr

J-schools play catch up

Some journalism schools are adapting to the changing media world with major renovations to their curricula. They are updating their skills courses, teaching more multimedia journalism and offering courses to help […]

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17 Mar

Feeling guilty about teaching journalism?

Salon.com offers some advice to journalism professors who may be feeling guilty about teaching students skills to work in a dying industry. The advice from Cary Tennis: “I do not […]

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16 Mar

Go long and go deep: teaching literary journalism

By Bill Reynolds One of the best ways I have found to teach the work of the writers who depend on Tom Wolfe’s four horsemen of the literary journalism apocalypse […]

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12 Mar

Columbia j-school’s existential crisis

Columbia University’s School of Journalism appears to be facing the same internal conflict about how, or even whether, to change its curricula to teach new media skills as so many […]

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10 Mar

Finding hope for j-students

ByMary McGuire Jobs in newsrooms across the country are disappearing, but the number of young people who want to study journalism appears to be as strong as ever. While bloggers […]

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25 Feb

Teaching j-students about Twitter

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or,  if they’re not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a […]

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6 Jan

The role of blogs in journalism education

ByAlfred Hermida Blogs have become part of the editorial furniture of most news sites. In the U.S., 95% of the top 100 newspapers feature reporter blogs. So it seems appropriate […]

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24 Nov

Multimedia skills give journalists an edge in competitive job market

In journalism, having multimedia skills is comparable to being bilingual, said Globe and Mail day editor Jim Sheppard, during a visit with Carleton j-students. J-Source editor and Carleton prof Mary […]

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23 Nov

Inspiring photojournalism

A list of nine sites where you will find some examples of the best photojournalism online today. The list can be found in this blog post, called Amazing Photojournalism: Where […]

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