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Jaclyn Law lays down a crash course in copy editing that will help you identify common problems in your writing, power up your prose and find solutions for copy conundrums.
It was a conference with perhaps the lowest average delegate age of all journalism conferences in Canada, but the Canadian University Press’s 75th annual national conference still managed to pack quite the knowledge punch with dozens of informative sessions and keynote speakers that included CBC's Amanda Lang
Western University's daily student paper, The Gazette, is facing threats to its press freedom from its publisher, the Western University Students' Council, according to front-page reports today penned by the paper's editor-in-chief Gloria Dickie.
Appications for AP's 12-week internship program are due soon.
We're talking student journalism this week as The Canadian University Press hostis its 75th national conference (#NASH75) at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto.
J-Source's Belinda Alzner (@belindaalzner) and Eric Mark Do (@ericmarkdo) will be tweeting from the conference Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
As Eric Mark Do explains, when Concordia University’s student newspaper, The Link, makes shocking revelations through investigative work, the impact spreads past campus borders and into the community at large.
Stephanie Maris is the editor of the Winter 2013 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Here, she talks about what it was like heading the masthead of an esteemed student-published journalism magazine, what we can look forward to in the upcoming issue, and how the RRJ is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Applications are now open for Google's 10-week journalism fellowships for the summer of 2013.
Lauren Waldhuter is a journalism student at the University of South Australia who just completed a semester-long exchange at Ryerson University. Here she talks to Eric Mark Do about the experience and some of her observations on the two journalism programs, as well as the similarities and differences in the countries' media.
As j-school students we know our future jobs as journalists carry risks, both physical and emotional. Katie Starr explains after a recent Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma workshop, you don’t need to travel halfway across the world to experience the risks that come along with being a journalist.
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