Melanie Coulson is a senior online editor for The Ottawa Citizen and a journalism instructor at Carleton University, but Sun News Network's latest job posting caught her eye. Here is her open cover letter to the network.
There is a place in Canada where three things are growing: the economy, the population and advertising dollars. Welcome to Saskatchewan, where, Angelina Irinci reports, journalism grads are in demand and media outlets are springing up to take advantage of ad dollars that are more free-flowing than elsewhere in the country.
A U.S. journalism educator shares his ideas about how to teach students to provide live coverage via Twitter with tweets that are not just relevant, timely, accurate and interesting but that are complete sentences, provide attribution and follow journalistic style for grammar, spelling and punctuation.
With the launch Trent University and Loyalist College’s new joint degree journalism program comes the inevitable question: In the current economic environment and difficult job market, does Canada need another j-school? In talking to people behind the new program as well as experts and those who have recently launched programs of their own, Angelina Irinici takes…
Over the past few months, numerous students expressed concern over their choice to become a journalist in the face of great uncertainty regarding the future of the news industry. Yes, it looks bad. Really bad. Everything that has existed for so long is destroyed. But, Rob Washburn notes, there are shoots of opportunity sprouting from the…
Journalism educators went back to school for three days recently at The Poynter Institute's Teachapalooza 2012 looking for inspiration about how to update their lessons and their programs to respond to the changes in the industry. One of the participants, Kanina Holmes, an assistant professor of journalism at Carleton University, reflects on the lessons she…
As the media industry faces unprecedented changes, journalism schools are re-thinking their programs. Mary McGuire explains why some critics say it's time for bold changes though there's no clear agreement on what those changes should be.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has launched a six-month Fellowship to honour Paul Steiger, former chair of CPJ.
Instead of reporters, computers are now writing news stories on local sports, finance and crime in the United States. Angelina Irinici says that while algorithm reporting isn't nearly as popular in Canadian publications yet, she's still nervous about losing out to a robot when it comes to getting her first real journalism job.
The New York Times may be reporting moderate success with this attempt at its paywall but, well, it's The New York Times. According to Jeff Fraser, if Canadian newspapers implementing paywalls — Postmedia's The Ottawa Citizen and The Globe and Mail most notably — are to succeed, they're going to have to establish their value all…