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17 Sep

Student newspapers launch alternative newswire to Canadian University Press

<p><strong>By Laurent Bastien Corbeil</strong></p><p>Several student newspapers have left the non-profit co-operative Canadian University Press to cut costs and started an alternative called the National University Wire.</p><p>The University of British Columbia’s <em>Ubyssey</em> was the most recent departure earlier this month, and some of CUP’s oldest members—<em>The McGill Daily, </em>the <em>Dalhousie Gazette, </em>the <em>Varsity</em> and the <em>Manitoban</em>—have left the cooperative in recent years.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: What if you don’t land a job in a newsroom? There’s still hope (and it’s not just PR)

<p><strong>By Vanessa Santilli</strong></p><p>Mick Côté experiments with a wide variety of storytelling techniques in his job as a multimedia content producer for the Montreal-based startup Spundge.</p><p>“We started something fairly new called live curation,” said Côté, a journalism grad with both a bachelor and a master’s degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax. “Instead of live blogging, it’s curating live events, so you archive things that other people are saying.”</p>

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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: Resources for journalism students

<p><strong>Compiled by J-Source staff</strong></p><p>September can be a stressful time for students, but whether you’re a first-year j-school student or a returning one, J-Source has you covered.</p><p>We’ve compiled a number of great back-to-school resources to help get you back in the groove.</p><p><strong>You are not alone</strong></p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: Why being a journalism student is like preparing for the gold rush

<p><strong>By Meagan Gillmore</strong></p><p>Seeking a journalism career is like preparing for the Klondike Gold Rush.</p><p>In the 1890s, thousands of people stampeded Canada’s North, looking for gold, adventure, escape. But not everyone who wanted it could cross the Yukon’s borders. The Northwest Mounted Police required people wanting to enter Canada to have very specific equipment that would be essential for their success.</p>

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11 Sep

Back to school: How to succeed at an internship in a city you’ve never been to before

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Rhiannon3.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Topher Seguin/Telegraph-Journal<br />Rhiannon Russell interviewing Pat Honeyman, a World War II veteran, for Victory in Europe Day in May in St. John, N.B.</em></p><p><strong>By Rhiannon Russell</strong></p><p>I spent my summer in a different city, in a different province, at a newspaper I had only read once before.</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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10 Sep

Back to school: Want to work overseas? Do your research

<p><em>Many journalism students dream of working overseas, but <strong>Lily Martin</strong> turned fantasy into reality. How? Research. Here in J-Source she explains how being able to find people and information--especially through social media--makes you an asset abroad, and why you need to do your research before you pack your bags.</em></p>

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