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Melanie Coulson spent the past four months researching community newsrooms and citizen journalism while a journalist-in-residence as a Michener-Deacon Fellow at Carleton University.
When Boston.com buckled under the pressure of the traffic that news of the explosions sent its way, the site redirected its homepage to ScribbleLive, allowing Boston.com to still update their readers in real-time even after the site went down.
A Waterloo-based startup Media Spot Me says it can help journalists find reliable sources and experts faster.
Using audio to tell a story is a great device for journalists. Here are some ways to use SoundCloud to do that and more.
J-Source education editor Mary McGuire has compiled this vast list of resources for journalism instructors to use in their classrooms this fall. We’ve broken it down into three categories:
- The Basics (reporting, writing, interviewing and ethics)
- Broadcast/Visual Journalism (audio, video and photography)
- New Media (social media, blogging, data visualization and multimedia storytelling)
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach new and emerging trends in journalism? Here, Mary McGuire has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:
- Blogging
- Social media
- Multimedia storytelling
- Data visualization
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach broadcast and visual journalism? Here, Mary McGuire has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following:
- Photography
- Audio journalism
- Video journalism
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, Mary McGuire lays out a curated list of tools and resources for teaching the following subjects:
- Reporting
- Writing
- Interviewing
- Ethics
A Canadian charity is linking up with a British one to boost hazardous environment training for Canadian freelance journalists.
The Magazine School is a free online resource for instructors that gives the story-behind-the-story of the winners of the Western Magazine Awards.
General Tools
This category is the place to find general reference resources such as online dictionaries, encyclopedias (and discussions of the the value of using Wikipedia), quotations, timelines, currency converters, language translators, and other types of converters and translaters.
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