Students' Lounge

Nov 05, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
On Nov. 6 from 7- 8:30 p.m. EST the Christian Science Monitor is hosting a live webcast to discuss the future of journalism.
Video and audio links for the conversation- featuring five speakers from various media centres, including the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Columbia University- will be available on...
Oct 24, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
The undergraduate broadcast students at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ont. have some podcasts to share, as well as links to articles of various interests on their website, The Pioneer.
There's also some video and audio to check out too, as well as election coverage, in case you haven't had enough by now.

Oct 24, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
A story in the Globe and Mail, recounts a celebration of The Ubyssey's 90th year in publication.

Notable past contributors include: Earle Birney, Pierre Burton, Morley Safer.

And yes, there was cake.
Oct 17, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
Tyler Kalmakoff, a writer at The Omega, Thomson Rivers University's student paper, interviewed Boston Red Sox writer Ian Browne in the Oct. 15 issue.
Here's Browne's answers to 21 questions about his "dream job."
Oct 14, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
Students taking an introductory reporting course at the University of King's College in Halifax will be reporting the election live-to-deadline tonight.

Check out their website, which also includes riding-by-riding coverage and results from the 2006 election.
Oct 10, 2008 - Posted by Regan Ray
In the face of a possible employee strike at the Montreal Gazette, Canwest News Service has approached journalism students from Concordia University and offered them work on a temporary basis...
Oct 08, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
The Canadian Association of Journalists- an advocacy and education group representing some 1,500 journalists- is offering a special October rate for students. The $20 charge includes, in their words:

-cheap rates on CAJ conferences

-the chance to network with working journalists at chapter events

-a subscription to Media magazine

It's usually $30 per year, but if you join before Halloween you get the discounted price. Student members also get discounts on admission to the National Writers Symposium in Kelowna, B.C., on Oct. 18 and 19,  and the national conference in Vancouver, on May 22-24.

Oct 01, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
Arati Sharma, a student at McMaster University, wrote this column in the Hamilton Spectator about education as the top issue in the federal election. She argues that higher education is crucial to creating a better society for all classes and backgrounds.

"If we are serious about allowing each member of our community to achieve their dreams, we need to support the access agenda," she writes. "We need to ensure that young children are not afraid to pursue higher education due to debt aversion and unrealistic costs of education."

Sharma asks readers to question parties about their student loan programs and the steps they would take to help wipe out student debt.
Sep 27, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
Check out this post from my classmate Dan Robson at Carleton University about student debt and the promises made during election time- that don't always come to fruition.
Sep 18, 2008 - Posted by Laura Stone
Students at Columbia University recently used Twitter- where messages no longer than 140 characters are sent to other members and in this case -- posted online- to cover a presidential forum at the school...
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