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7 Oct

Tips for creating web videos

CNW’s Beyond the Wire blog offers four tips on making your online video stand out: Know your audience CNW writes: “Who do you want to reach and how?” Figure out […]

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5 Oct

Journalism teachers are failing their students

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="left" alt="Wayne MacPhail" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Wayne_MacPhail.jpg" style="width: 131px; height: 106px;" title="Wayne MacPhail" />The students </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Wayne MacPhail </span><span style="font-style: italic;">sees know practically nothing about the online world or emerging media; their journalistic training reaches only a tentative few feet beyond the same traditional media it always has.

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1 Oct

Algonquin College launches Canada’s first community-funded news site

Algonquin College has launched Gojournalism.ca, a community-funded journalism site. The site, which is modelled after California’s successful Spot.us, is the product of an open-source research project funded by Algonquin. A […]

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21 Sep

The new breed of programmer-journalists

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Craig Silverman" border="0" height="80" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Craig_Silverman.jpg" title="Craig Silverman" vspace="0" width="80" />Two U.S. J-schools are mixing computer science and journalism to create</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><span style="font-style: italic;">a new breed of programmer-journalists. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Craig Silverman</span> reports. </span><br />

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14 Sep

Ryerson students go mobile, thanks to Motorola and Telus

<p>A Ryerson journalism instructor is teaching his students how to be mobile journalists with a little help from Motorola and Telus.</p><p>Last year, Wayne MacPhail found the students in his class had a mix of different devices. This year, however, they will now be able to use the same devices to post audio, video, images and text to the web.</p>

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14 Sep

How to conquer j-students’ fear of technology

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">It's easy to assume the younger generation understands technology - but when it comes to multimedia storytelling, a lot of students admit they're computer illiterate. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Jen Lee Reeves</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> offers tips for teaching technology to Luddites.</span></p>

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14 Sep

Textbook for potential j-students

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="Left" alt="Lisa Bruni" border="0" height="118" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Lisa%20Bruni.jpg" title="Lisa Bruni" width="100" />Peter Steven's new book, The News, uses current case studies to explore the state of online news,  international and investigative coverage and Canadian news production in the wake of the economic meltdown, writes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lisa Bruni</span>. </span><br />

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31 Aug

How to teach social media in J-school

<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Social media is so new, it's easy to claim you're an expert on the subject. But some journalism professors are finding ways to teach the new medium as part of the curriculum, writes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alfred Hermida</span>. </span><br />

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24 Aug

Exceptional multimedia student projects

If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It’s a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author […]

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29 Jun

A new style guide for web writing

Yahoo has decided it’s time for an alternative to traditional style guides when it comes to text written for the Web. In July, 2010, it will launch The Yahoo! Style Guide: The […]

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