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4 Sep

Media Musings: Does a journalism education still matter?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/University class_5.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</em></p><p><strong>By Joe Banks</strong></p><p>My students may be shocked to know we’ve posed the question in the headline, since in the asking, there is a suggestion that it doesn’t. So I will confidently and quickly answer in the affirmative before explaining: of course it matters, and it will continue to matter.</p>

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22 Jul

Media Musings: Don’t tell me there aren’t jobs in journalism

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Newsroom.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Jimmy Thomson</em></p><p><strong>By Joe Banks</strong></p><p>It has become a well-worn refrain: there are no jobs in journalism. It’s untrue, but never let truth, as the cliché goes, stand in the way of a good story.</p>

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22 Jul

Joe Banks joins J-Source with new column

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Joe Banks_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><p>I’m pleased to announce that long-time journalism educator and journalist Joe Banks will write a regular column for J-Source. Media Musings will cover a broad range of issues related to the journalism industry and journalism education, as befits someone with Banks’s experience.</p>

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