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17 Sep

Live blog: Covering the Boston Marathon bombings in real-time

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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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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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9 Sep

Back to school: How to land a job out of j-school

<p><em>Wondering how to land a coveted job out of j-school? Here in J-source, CBC's <strong>Justin Grant</strong> explains how he went from the classroom, to an internship, to a job in a newsroom within weeks of graduation, and shares some tips on surviving in the real world.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/justincbc_0.png" title="" /></p>

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20 Aug

The challenges of investigative reporting as a freelancer

<div> </div><div><em>In this <a href="http://caj.ca//wp-content/uploads/2010/mediamag/Summer%202013/Media_Summer2013_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">special edition of </a></em><a href="http://caj.ca//wp-content/uploads/2010/mediamag/Summer%202013/Media_Summer2013_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media</a><em><a href="http://caj.ca//wp-content/uploads/2010/mediamag/Summer%202013/Media_Summer2013_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> magazine</a>, journalists take us behind the scenes of their award-winning work, explaining how they got their stories, the obstacles they faced, and perhaps most important, valua

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14 Aug

Spec on the Spot: Newspaper takes reporting back to the basics

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Spec on the Spot Molly Hayes.png" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>Imagine a slow summer news day and your assignment editor asks you to write something — anything to fill the page. It’s the dreaded streeter assignment. And yet it’s exactly the back-to-basics reporting that is earning the <em>Hamilton Spectator </em>kudos from its readers. </p>

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3 Jul

Inside the Canadian military journalism course

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/3.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Lo</strong><strong>la Fakinlede </strong></p><p>Real stories about the military don’t come from public relations officers or official statements.</p><p>The real stories come from soldiers who go to the frontline – and, the only way to get those stories is to talk to the soldiers.</p>

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24 Jun

Flood watch: How CTV Calgary covered catastrophe

<p><em>Days after devastating floods ripped through Calgary, some parts of the city are still in a state of emergency. Here on J-Source, CTV Calgary's <strong>Karen Owen</strong> shares her story of what it was like to produce hours of breaking, live, television news coverage as the drama unfolded.</em></p>

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22 May

The universal challenge of digital news: Why working as an online journalist isn’t all that different in Canada and Ghana

<p><em>Travelling to West Africa to work as a digital journalist, Global News online editor <strong>Ashley Terry</strong> expected there would be differences in how reporters get and tell stories. But what she didn't expect was to face some of the same challenges that online journalists see here in Canada.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/ashleyafrica.png" title="" /></p>

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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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