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14 Aug

Spec on the Spot: Newspaper takes reporting back to the basics

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Spec on the Spot Molly Hayes.png" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>Imagine a slow summer news day and your assignment editor asks you to write something — anything to fill the page. It’s the dreaded streeter assignment. And yet it’s exactly the back-to-basics reporting that is earning the <em>Hamilton Spectator </em>kudos from its readers. </p>

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13 Aug

Live blog: Real-Time Content In Journalism School

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7 Jun

Live blog of MagNet2013 Conference: Breaking The Rules Of Online Publishing—Tyee Style

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29 May

Highlights of BEAC2013 conference: Nurturing the Digital Age

<p><strong>By Nicole Blanchett Neheli</strong></p><p>If you teach any type of media, it’s a constant struggle to keep up with new tools and trends. That’s why I went to the Broadcast Educators Association of Canada’s (<a href="http://beac.ca">BEAC</a>) annual conference in Banff. You can check out my <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/live-blog-broadcast-educators-association-canada-conference">live blog</a> of the event, but if you’d rather not scroll through a few days of tweets and pics here are some highlights.</p>

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23 May

Live blog: Broadcast Educators Association of Canada conference

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22 May

Letter to the editor: Three things that don’t stand up in Basen’s column on journalists and public relations

<p><strong>By Paul Knox</strong></p><p>Readers will make up their own minds about Ira Basen’s contention that <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-why-all-journalists-should-study-public-relations">all journalists should study public relations</a>. But here are three things in Basen’s recent J-Source piece that don’t stand up:</p>

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22 May

The universal challenge of digital news: Why working as an online journalist isn’t all that different in Canada and Ghana

<p><em>Travelling to West Africa to work as a digital journalist, Global News online editor <strong>Ashley Terry</strong> expected there would be differences in how reporters get and tell stories. But what she didn't expect was to face some of the same challenges that online journalists see here in Canada.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/ashleyafrica.png" title="" /></p>

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15 May

Opinion: Why all journalists should study public relations

<p><strong>By Ira Basen, J-Source Future of News editor</strong></p>

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5 May

J-Source live blog of CAJ Conference Day 3

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2 May

Western University accepting applications for CanWest Global Fellowship in Media

<p> </p><p>Western University is accepting applications for the <span style="font-size: 10px;">CanWest Global Fellowship in Media</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px;">Deadline: July 1, 2013 or until position is filled.</span></p>

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