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Fearless Female Journalists, a new book by veteran journalist Joy Crysdale, chronicles the lives and careers of almost a dozen stand-out women journalists, reminding us how far we've come - and how far we've yet to go. Reviewed by Julianna McDermott.

It has been 12 years since I left the relative safety and security of Carleton’s journalism school and went out to become “a journalist”. It was mysterious, exciting and worrisome: how do you land that first job? By the Ottawa Citizen's Melanie Coulson.

New York City's journalism schools are working to rethink their offerings and adapt to the new world...

Technology is taking over the curriculum at too many j-schools and the results are "disastrous," accorinding to a well-known journalism educator and the author of the widely-used News Reporting and Writing, now in it's 12th edition.

Melvin Mencher says instruction in basic reporting and writing, journalism history and ethics is being squeezed by the growing number of tech-related courses, in a story published at About.com:Journalism.

"How you can have a curriculum that's limited to 30 hours and stuff it with things like how to make a video and or create a blog?" he says in a phone interview. "What the hell does that have to do with the basics of reporting?"

Mencher wonders why more journalism faculty don't resist the shift and suggests that too many of them have spent too much time earning PhDs and too little time in newsrooms.