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Multimedia journalism is like sex in junior high: Garcia

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…
Live blog: Journalism: How It’s Done, Where It’s Headed

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…
Highlights: How to land your dream internship in a newsroom

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…
Live chat: How to get your dream internship in a newsroom

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…
How to get rich at unpaid internships

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…
Student newspapers launch alternative newswire to Canadian University Press

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…
Creative problem-solving key to Ryerson’s innovation workshop

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.
Back to school: What if you don’t land a job in a newsroom? There’s still hope (and it’s not just PR)

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…
Top 10 tips for getting through your first semester of j-school

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.
Back to school: Resources for journalism students

J-Source has compiled some great back-to-school resources to help students get back in the groove.