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1 Feb

Canadian newspapers and infographics: Too scared to try?

<p><em>Around the world, newspapers are boldly experimenting with online infographics -- and they're making money. So why aren't papers in Canada following suit? <strong>Claire Prime</strong> looks into this in the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.</em></p><p> </p>

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30 Jan

Five lessons for using social media more effectively

<p>What if social media didn’t begin in the age of the Internet, but instead, hundreds of years earlier? (In 1440, to be exact.)</p>

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26 Jan

Peter Klein’s open letter to Hungarian Prime Minister on press freedom — or lack thereof

<p>University of British Columbia School of Journalism director Peter Klein has written an <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/a-letter-on-freedom-to-hungarys-viktor-orbn/article4202334/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as published today by <em>The Globe and Mail</em>. In it, he lambasts Orbán for changes to the Hungarian constitution he recently made, which give media control to the government, effectively squelch free press:</p>

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26 Jan

On Gilles Duceppe’s use of parliamentary funds and the ensuing media war

<p>In the wake of the controversy that has surrounded Gilles Duceppe over the past week, there has emerged a media war as well.</p>

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25 Jan

Chantal Hébert: Twitter is not a window to the world — it’s a mirror

<p>Chantal Hébert <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2012/01/24/sk-hebert-social-media-ftr-120124.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took on Twitter</a> and journalists’ use of it at the 32<sup>nd</sup> annual Minifie Lecture at the University of Regina last night.</p>

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24 Jan

Lara Logan on her recovery, her family, and journalism after sexual assault

<p>In an <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/1.1009501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive interview with <em>New York Daily News</em></a>, Lara Logan speaks candidly about the sexual assault she endured in Egypt last winter, her recovery and how she is handling and covering stories now.</p>

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24 Jan

MarketingMag readers believe media will stay free, paywalls not the future

<p> </p><p>In light of Postmedia’s Paul Godfrey’s assertion that more Canadian media will employ some sort of metered system for online news in the near future, MarketingMag conducted an <a href="http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/media-news/poll-media-always-finds-a-way-to-be-free-44839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unscientific online poll</a> that asked if readers believed this to be true.</p><p>Apparently, they do not. MarketingMag.ca asked “Is Postmedia’s Paul Godfrey right? Will all Canadian media go pay-per-view online?” The responses:</p>

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24 Jan

A hundred tweets a day keeps the sickness at bay

<p><em>How does a student journalism conference handle a norovirus outbreak? Through social media, of course. <strong>Emma Godmere</strong>, Canadian University Press national bureau chief, gives a first-person account of how she and her team used a myriad of digital tools to handle a situation that was unprecedented for them and what it was like as a journalist to become the subject of a national media story. </em></p><p> </p><p>I don’t think many of us had ever used “diarrhea” in a tweet before.</p>

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23 Jan

Tips for preparing for a journalism job interview

<p><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/skills/how-to-prepare-for-a-journalism-job-interview/s7/a547546/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journalism.co.uk has a handy list</a> of things to do (and not to do) when you land an interview for a journalism job. Among them are the basics: Do your research, give examples, ask a few questions (but not too many!) and come with story ideas.</p>

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20 Jan

Journalists get in on meme: Shit news reporters say

<p>This now-familiar Internet meme seems to have started with the "<a href="http://j-source.ca/node/add/article" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shit Girls Say</a>" videos, which drew criticism for simply perpetuating <a href="http://j-source.ca/node/add/article" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender-based stereotypes</a>. But then all sorts of groups <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/comedy-1/juliette-lewis-in-shit-girls-say.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined in</a>. There was the inevitable "Shit Guys Say," the "Shit White Girls Say ...

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