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1 May

Spirit Dancing: How two UBC students gained access to report on this secretive Aboriginal tradition

<p><em>The University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism offers a one-of-a-kind class on Reporting in Indigenous Communities.</em> <em>Developed in partnership with several B.C. Aboriginal communities, the course is designed to elevate Canada's not-so-great coverage of</em> <em>Aboriginal issues and focuses on a specific theme.

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22 Aug

Teaching resources for instructors: The Basics

<p><em>Updated August 20, 2013</em></p><p>Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, <strong>Mary McGuire</strong> has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:</p>

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11 Aug

Lesson#1: Interviewing is listening

Teaching interviewing requires more than just giving students lists of dos and don’ts. Playing examples of television and radio interviews to illustrate the good and bad habits of interviewers is […]

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16 Aug

Interviewing tips from NPR for young radio journalists

NPR’s project called Teenage Diaries on National Public Radio included a website with lots of tips for people about producing good radio stories. This page is the list of tips […]

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16 Mar

Paul McLaughlin’s interviewing tips

A list of useful tips about preparing for and conducting effective interviews for reporters prepared by Paul McLaughlin, one of Canada’s well-known instructors and authors on interviewing for journalists.

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21 Feb

CBC’s index of great interviews

The new CBC.ca inludes a page of links to a collection of interviews with great Canadians. The collection includes both radio and television interviews. A terrific resource.

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21 Feb

Loosening lips

Pulitzer-prize winning reporter, Eric Nalder, formerly of the Seattle Times, now with the San Jose Mercury News, has given workshops on interviewing to reporters for years. His tips for doing […]

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21 Feb

More from NPR on interviewing

The summary of a lengthy presentation by Neil Conan, the host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, to the Poynter Institute on broadcast interviewing.

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21 Feb

The art of the interview from NPR

An August 2006 feature on John Sawatsky from National Public Radio. The page includes an article on Sawatsky’s evolution from journalist to journalism prof to expert on teaching interviewing to […]

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20 Sep

John Sawatsky on interviewing

Some of the best advice about interviewing for journalists comes from Canadian author and journalist, John Sawatsky, who has been giving workshops to journalists in Canada and around the world […]

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