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7 Jan

How to butcher your students’ writing…nicely

<p><strong>By Nicole Blanchett Neheli, Field Notes Editor</strong></p>

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19 Dec

Apply for the E.U-Canada Young Journalist Award

<p>The European Union Delegation to Canada is pleased to announce the 2014 edition of the European Union-Canada Young Journalist Award.</p>

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13 Dec

Everything a journalism professor should be: Carleton’s Catherine McKercher retires

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Catherine.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Stuart Adam, professor emeritus at Carleton University</strong></p>

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13 Dec

Exploring new channels for journalism education over Twitter

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson, Education Editor</strong></p><p>Talk about using different channels to discuss journalism education. On Dec. 10, PBS' MediaShift hosted a twitter discussion that explored new channels for journalism education. Using the hashtag #edshift, Katy Culver, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tweeted out questions from Sue Robinson, also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Poynter's Al Tompkins.</p><p>The discussion was fascinating. They have been gathered in a storify below. </p>

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6 Dec

Ask a Mentor section to re-launch in January

<p><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><p>I’m pleased to announce that we will re-launch J-Source’s <a href="http://j-source.ca/category/advice-resources/ask-mentor">Ask a Mentor</a> section in January with the help of one of our long-time partners, the <a href="http://www.caj.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian Association of Journalists.</a></p>

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5 Dec

Amanda Lang: Students should give business journalism a chance

<p>Does the thought of numbers and financial markets scare you? Ryerson journalism student <strong>Haaruun Dhubat</strong> interviewed Amanda Lang, of the <em>Lang and O’Leary Exchange</em>, on how she got into the field without a business degree and succeeded.</p><p><strong>J-Source: How did you get your start as a financial journalist?</strong></p><p> </p><p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Amanda Lang_0.JPG" title="" /></p>

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4 Dec

Ryerson Review of Journalism launches 30th anniversary commemorative ebook

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/RRJ_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p>The <em>Ryerson Review of Journalism</em> has put together an ebook to celebrate 30 years of publishing, featuring some of the magazine’s best work from across the decades. Produced by final-year journalism students in the masthead class at Ryerson University, in Toronto, the <em>RRJ</em> takes a critical look at the journalism industry in Canada.</p>

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28 Nov

Live chat on internships: No pay, no gain?

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21 Nov

Headline writing: how to make things go viral

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson, Education Editor</strong></p><p>What you write is meaningless if it isn’t getting an audience.</p><p>In the multimedia journalism course I teach at Carleton’s journalism school, and in the <em><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/index.html" rel="homepage noopener" target="_blank" title="Ottawa Citizen">Ottawa Citizen</a></em> newsroom where I work my "day job," I’m often speaking about headlines and SEO.</p>

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14 Nov

Networking tips for journalism students

<p><strong>By Mary-Katherine Boss, Student Lounge Editor</strong></p><p>It can be unnerving for students and recent graduates to find journalism jobs in today's competitive market. J-schools often suggest that networking is one of the best ways for new journalists to make connections in the industry but rarely explain how to do so effectively.</p>

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