[node:ad] Tamara BalujaTamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.
See the updated internship listing here. There’s simply too much content out there. Ask anyone, and they’ll probably tell you that they’re tired of sifting through it all to find the good stuff. We certainly are. That’s why we invented Newsana. We’re a community of news junkies, who love to work together to filter out…
By Paul Knox Readers will make up their own minds about Ira Basen’s contention that all journalists should study public relations. But here are three things in Basen’s recent J-Source piece that don’t stand up: 1. “Most [journalism students] will wind up working in some form of PR after they graduate.” At Ryerson University, the…
The Lance will be cutting at least five staff positions and will reduce the salaries of remaining staff following a new budget approved by the University of Windsor Student Alliance last week. The 85-year-old newspaper was ordered to end all its print productions last month after the student government balked at its $24,000 reported deficit.…
Most journalism schools don’t like to talk to their students about public relations. They teach them nothing about PR history, theory, ethics and practice. It’s as if they believe that by teaching them about the “dark side” they will somehow be made impure. Journalism professor Ira Basen writes this lack of knowledge about PR does…
With ad dollars falling, newspapers have responded by cutting desk staff. In an era when the Toronto Sun misspells "Correction" in a correction column, is there any hope for a revival of good copyediting and can newspapers maintain their credibility? Tamara BalujaTamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism…
Follow along the sessions on the last day of the CAJ conference. Tamara BalujaTamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.
Western University is accepting applications for the CanWest Global Fellowship in Media Deadline: July 1, 2013 or until position is filled. The Fellow will promote public discussion on the nature of Canadian media. The successful candidate will be in residence for either the fall 2013 or winter 2014 term at Western University and will receive…
With many students beginning their summer internships this week, J-Source takes a look at their job prospects. An internship is often the golden ticket to scoring a job in journalism. But with media outlets across the country laying off staff, are there still jobs to be had for interns? And will the unions allow the…
In a student essay, Western University journalism grad Katherine Starr explores what responsible journalism means to her. Tamara BalujaTamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.