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27 Aug

J-school to close at one U.S. university

<p>The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2010/08/25/cu-boulder-committee-study-future-journalism-course-and-degree-offerings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a statement on its website</a>, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology and has set up an exploratory committee to help it do that.<br />

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27 Aug

J-School offers no job guarantees

A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want – a job in journalism.  […]

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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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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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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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24 Nov

Free money, just apply

Of the thousands of broadcast students in Canada, only 44 applied for five RTNDA scholarships, writes George Hoff.  Why some broadcast programs pay little or no attention to lucrative scholarships […]

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13 Oct

From zero to a television news story in four weeks

After covering the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, CBC video journalist Sasa Petricic went back with a very different mission. Laxmi Parthasarathy sat down with Petricic in Rwanda […]

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3 Sep

Closing j-schools makes no sense

Teaching Journalism editor Mary McGuire makes the case for higher education in journalism. Too many journalists think too narrowly about the value of journalism programs. These days some have taken […]

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2 Sep

Teaching students to report, write and overcome their fears

Learning to identify stories, find sources, interview, take notes and write isn’t enough, writes Carleton journalism prof Dave Tait. A teacher’s job is also to show novice journos how to […]

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21 Aug

J- educators need to rewrite their conference programs

One U.S. journalism educator was less than impressed with his first visit to the annual conference of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. Steve Fox, a multimedia […]

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