Newspapers looking to "cut fat" from their newsrooms often turn to laying off those who don't produce content—such as copy editors. But, as Natascia Lypny asks, can their credibility afford the cut?
When member organizations are strapped for cash, the co-op feels the pain. This is something the Canadian University Press knows too well, as its fees, for some members, have become more of a burden than a necessity. But at its recent national conference, Tracey Lindeman reports the 75-year-old student journalism collective began to tackle some of…
A number of significant changes were made at the 2013 Canadian University Press national conference and AGM, and many of them were hotly debated, particularly JHM Award submission fees, the creation of the executive director position, the Link's outstanding membership fees and more.
Teachers across Ontario are boycotting extracurricular activities—including the supervision of student newspaper production—as a form of protest in the ongoing contract dispute with the government. But students at North Collegiate Toronto Institute will still get their news. Eric Mark Do chats with one of the newspaper's editors-in-chief, Sabina Wex.
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.
When a journalism student declared he had never bought a physical newspaper, Torstar chair John Honderich shot back: “Is that something you’re proud of?” But as Joy Blenman explains, the student’s statement is a sign of the times: the future of journalism is digital, and the transition has already begun.
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.