Education Editor Melanie Coulson reports on media consultant Mario Garcia's recent presentation to staff at the Ottawa Citizen, in which he said the next wave of storytelling should consider platforms from the moment of conception.
New technologies and business practices are transforming the news media and their relationship to our society. With Ryerson's School of Journalism celebrating its 60th anniversary, its alumni will consider the pivotal choices facing both the industry and a journalism school in this all-day panel. 10 a.m. EST.
As journalism students gear up for internship interviews, J-Source is hosting a live chat with hiring experts in four different newsrooms. Here's your opportunity to ask questions of Valerie Casselton, managing editor at the Vancouver Sun, Ruth Zowdu, executive producer of Radio Current Affairs at CBC Ottawa, Patricia Lonergan,managing editor of 11 Metroland community newspapers in…
As journalism students gear up for internship interviews, J-Source is hosting a live chat with hiring experts in four different newsrooms. Here's your opportunity to ask questions of Valerie Casselton, managing editor at the Vancouver Sun, Ruth Zowdu, executive producer of Radio Current Affairs at CBC Ottawa, Patricia Lonergan,managing editor of 11 Metroland community newspapers…
Internships vary, but the first rule of any internship — and especially of unpaid internships — is always the same: don’t end up making coffee, writes Ryerson student Mitchell Cohen. But he says, his coffee is special. And by the time he left his CBC Radio internship, everyone in the current affairs offices on the…
Several student newspapers have left the non-profit co-operative Canadian University Press and started an alternative called the National University Wire. Those who left say a combination of high membership fees and little-used or overlapping services were important factors behind their decision.
Ryerson professor Joyce Smith writes about her innovation workshop at the university's journalism school, and how even if the project fails, a student who experiments can succeed.
Despite the state of the journalism industry with layoffs, buyouts and dwindling ad sales, there is still hope for finding work after graduation. J-Source speaks with three journalism grads who applied the skills they learned in j-school to non-traditional jobs, along with one journo who made the switch from working in print to the emerging…
So you’ve decided to go to j-school? Don’t worry—we’ll help you! Two former teaching assistants from Western University offer their advice for getting through it all.
J-Source has compiled some great back-to-school resources to help students get back in the groove.