Students' Lounge

Journalism school is an excellent place to learn the tricks of the trade, but there are still a few things you're unlikely to figure out until you're out in the real world. Here are just a few to give you a head start. 

Marissa Nelson, senior editor, digital news at thestar.com tells young journalists what skills newsroom managers are looking for and how to exploit the digital savvy you already have.

Learn-gasm, a website about education, has put together a list of the "100 Best Blogs for Journalism Students."

It's a solid list of blogs and websites categorized under the following headings: general, educators, students, new media,  news, journalists , photojournalism and investigative journalism.

Unfortunately, not many Canadian bloggers made the list (Mathew Ingram is number 90).

For an alternate list of journalism blogs check out our blog roll in J-Source's Town Hall. And for a list of blogs by educators, check out Teaching Journalism.

Stephanie Nolen, The Globe and Mail's current India, and former Africa, correspondent, was honoured by her alma mater, the University of King's College, with an honourary doctorate in civil law.

Nolen has a journalism degree from King's and later pursued a masters in development economics from the London School of Economics. She is also author of 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa.

In her speech to students, she begins with a story about her own beginnings as a journalist and the difficulties her class had when graduating in the middle of a recession...