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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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12 Sep

Opinion: The Ontario Press Council hearings left many questions unanswered

<p><strong>By John Gordon Miller</strong></p>

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12 Sep

CBC Ombudsman: Not ideal that CBC has not seen video but decision to cover Rob Ford alleged crack video story was correct

<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/Enkin_1.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></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: 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: 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

Live Blog: Political Reporting In Real-Time

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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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