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11 Sep

Top 10 tips for getting through your first semester of j-school

<p><strong>By Madeline McNair and Rubab Abid</strong></p><p>So you’ve decided to go to j-school? Don’t worry—we’ll help you! Two former teaching assistants from Western University offer their advice for getting through it all. </p><p><strong>1. Live and breathe the news</strong></p><p>We know it sounds strange, but in order to become an effective and critical journalist you need to be familiar with the news. Whoa, did we just blow your minds? Just stay with us here.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: A growing number of colleges and universities now offer data journalism courses

<p><strong>By David McKie, J-Source Ideas Editor</strong></p><p>Over the years, I’ve used this space and countless pages in <em>Media</em> magazine to explain, promote and then explain again the virtues of data journalism.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: How to crowdsource a data journalism course

<p><strong>By Chad Skelton</strong></p><p>One of the dirty secrets about data journalism—one you don’t hear very often in all the hype about how it’s going to revolutionize reporting—is that data journalism is hard. Especially for journalists who are more comfortable with words than spreadsheets and who got into journalism in the first place because they didn’t like math.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: Do students need a journalism degree? An examination of journalism education as an industry transforms

<p><strong>By Paul Fontaine</strong></p><p>As journalism students head back to the classroom, the debate over the value of a journalism degree rages on.</p>

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5 Sep

Back to school: Loyalist-Trent journalism program unveils its massive new newsroom

<p><em>Trent University and Loyalist College officially launched a news bureau Wednesday as part of a joint journalism program run by the two schools. Jane Harrison, director of special projects and former Dean of Loyalist’s School of Media, Arts and Design talked to J-Source's education editor Melanie Coulson about the new 10,000-square-foot newsroom in Belleville and the program.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/loyalist_0.jpg" title="" /></p>

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3 Sep

Carl Bernstein to speak at international investigative journalism conference in Winnipeg

<p>The University of Winnipeg and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are joining forces to organize an event in Winnipeg next June called: “Holding Power to Account: International Conference on Investigative Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights.”</p><p>The CBC has a long tradition of creating important investigative journalism in Canada, and the University of Winnipeg has a special interest in fostering global citizenship and engagement in human rights. The conference will explore links between investigative journalism, democracy and international human rights.</p>

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27 Aug

Live blog: Everything you need to know about court reporting in real-time

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26 Aug

Opinion: We Need a Digital-First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism

<p><strong>By Cindy Royal, for <em>PBS MediaShift</em></strong></p><p>At the annual meeting of the <a href="http://aejmc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication</a> in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, one panel addressed adding programming skills to the curriculum: “<a href="http://blog.webjournalist.org/2013/08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why All Your Students Must Be Programmers</a>.”</p>

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22 Aug

Best practices for live chats

<p><strong>By Monique Beech, national community manager for Sun Media </strong></p><p>It’s a dreaded fear among us digital types who try to engage readers by doing live events or live chats on our websites: The fear that NOBODY will ask a question or make a comment. I’ll admit there have been a few times that I’ve filled an hour virtually talking to myself, rambling on (live blog style) and adding videos and polls in a desperate attempt to fill the time. As a colleague of mine would say, CRICKETS, is the worst.</p>

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20 Aug

Opinion: J-schools should innovate by prioritizing research and discovery instead of waiting for industry to dictate its needs

<p><strong>By Maija Saari</strong></p><p>The more things change in the media landscape, the more things stay the same. <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VXXYMQQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The latest report</a> out of The Poynter Institute on the state of journalism education finds, yet again, a big gap between faculty and professionals in their assessments of the value of journalism education.</p>

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