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6 Dec

Why sustaining an advertising-driven business model is difficult for community newspapers

<p><em>When a community newspaper closes, it is a great loss. Still, publishers will argue it is the economic reality of the times. Many scholars argue the importance of community journalism to democracy and citizenship, often separately from the business decisions. The historic tension between public service and economics is longstanding. But what if there is another set of lenses beyond journalism, political, economic, communications theory and other traditional disciplines to shed light on the significance of news media in rural Canada?

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29 Nov

Why we should care when a community newspaper shuts down

<p><em>When a community newspaper closes, it is a great loss. Still, publishers will argue it is the economic reality of the times. Many scholars argue the importance of community journalism to democracy and citizenship, often separately from the business decisions. The historic tension between public service and economics is longstanding. But, what if there is another set of lenses beyond journalism, political economy communications theory and other traditional disciplines to shed light on the significance of news media in rural Canada?

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23 Sep

Augmented Reality: the latest fad for newspapers or a real innovation?

<p><strong>By Robert Washburn, innovation editor</strong></p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>The <em>Toronto Star</em>’s use of augmented reality (AR) technology last week was one of several experiments by Canadian newspaper publishers over the past year to enhance traditional print media, opening doors to new experiences for readers, new audiences and new advertisers.</p>

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17 Sep

Innovation: Winnipeg Free Press uses augmented reality app to bring multimedia to the print edition

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/WP-Sports.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>The <em>Winnipeg Free Press</em> launched an augmented reality app earlier this month to bring multimedia to the print edition. Readers can scan the newspaper with the free app Blippar to link to digital content such as videos and photo slideshows—and even the answers to crossword puzzles—on their mobile devices.</p>

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13 Sep

Creative problem-solving key to Ryerson’s innovation workshop

<p><strong>By Joyce Smith </strong></p><p>It’s no surprise that I agree with Maija Saari’s <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-j-schools-should-innovate-prioritizing-research-and-discovery-instead-waiting-indust">recent piece on innovation</a> on J-Source.</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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9 Sep

Anatomy of a social media policy

<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/Andrew Lundy_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Andrew Lundy, director of digital at The Canadian Press</strong></p><p>I knew Scott White was serious about a new and comprehensive <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/read-canadian-press-social-media-policy">social media policy for The Canadian Press</a> when he put a sticky note up on his office whiteboard.</p>

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5 Sep

Back to school: Loyalist-Trent journalism program unveils its massive new newsroom

<p><em>Trent University and Loyalist College officially launched a news bureau Wednesday as part of a joint journalism program run by the two schools. Jane Harrison, director of special projects and former Dean of Loyalist’s School of Media, Arts and Design talked to J-Source's education editor Melanie Coulson about the new 10,000-square-foot newsroom in Belleville and the program.</em></p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/loyalist_0.jpg" title="" /></p>

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27 Aug

Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma creates guide on mental health reporting

<p>The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, in partnership with CBC News, has begun work on a comprehensive, Canadian guide to mental health reporting called <em>Mindset - Reporting on Mental Health.</em></p>

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26 Aug

Opinion: We Need a Digital-First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism

<p><strong>By Cindy Royal, for <em>PBS MediaShift</em></strong></p><p>At the annual meeting of the <a href="http://aejmc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication</a> in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, one panel addressed adding programming skills to the curriculum: “<a href="http://blog.webjournalist.org/2013/08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why All Your Students Must Be Programmers</a>.”</p>

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