Between streeters, stand-ups and internships, journalism school can feel overwhelming at times. Angelina Irinici has compiled this list of resources for students that should help them navigate tricky assignments and grey-area ethical situations. Angelina KingAngelina King is a freelance journalist who works as a reporter for CTV News Channel in Toronto. She previously reported for…
Welcome to j-school, new students of 2012 — you need not fear under-preparedness. In an effort to help new students start off on the right foot, J-Source’s summer reporter and fourth-year Ryerson journalism student Angelina Irinici recalls the five things she wishes someone had told her before she started journalism school. Angelina KingAngelina King is…
“I’m in it to find the truth/hold power to account/tell peoples’ stories — not for the money” will surely be the answer you get if you ask a journalist why he or she is in the industry. But realistically, how much can a journalist expect to make throughout his or her career? Angelina Irinici and Belinda…
Every summer for the last six years, Kim Kierans has travelled to the Philippines to teach working journalists new skills and help them develop old ones. Angelina Irinici finds out what unique challenges these journalists face in terms of ethics and press freedom and why Kierans’ biggest desire is to become obsolete. Belinda Alzner
J-Source has compiled this vast list of resources for journalism instructors to use in their classrooms this fall. We’ve broken it down into three categories: The Basics (reporting, writing, interviewing and ethics) Broadcast/Visual Journalism (audio, video and photography) New Media (social media, blogging, data visualization and multimedia storytelling) Belinda Alzner
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach new and emerging trends in journalism? Here, Mary McGuire has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following: Blogging Social media Multimedia storytelling Data visualization Belinda Alzner
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach broadcast and visual journalism? Here, Mary McGuire has curated a list of tools and resources for teaching the following: Photography Audio journalism Video journalism Belinda Alzner
Looking for resources to use in the classroom to help you teach the foundations of our craft? Here, Mary McGuire lays out a curated list of tools and resources for teaching the following subjects: Reporting Writing Interviewing Ethics Belinda Alzner
It’s a problem that has resulted in violence and bloodshed: Indigenous people in Brazil who exercise their right to return to ancestral land are finding that the land has been used for farming for some time. Journalism students from the University of British Columbia traveled to Brazil to document the conflict between indigenous people and…
Glen McGregor, Stephen Maher, Kady O'Malley, Paul Wells and Chantal Hébert are all journalists who have contributed to Canadian journalism in a variety of ways. They are all also journalists who never attended journalism school, based on a Twitter discussion late last week. Belinda Alzner