RTDNF announces scholarship winners
The Radio Television News Directors Foundation of Canada has awarded nine scholarships to journalism students across the country. Belinda Alzner
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Two Ottawa journalists win Michener fellowships
Two Ottawa journalists will spend four months each working on two very different issues, thanks to Michener-Deacon jouranlism fellowships. The winners were announced Thursday, May 10, 2012. Mary McGuire
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Student journalist draws lessons for media from her own tragedy and how it was covered
Third-year journalism student, Laura Nicholson, vivdly recalls the murder-suicide that left her an orphan and what she wished the journalists covering the event and aftermath would have done: "be sensitive to the reputations of the dead. Even though they are not alive to defend themselves, the family is left to pick up the pieces of…
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UBC Indigenous Reporting class examines health and healing in Aboriginal communities
Duncan McCue and a class of University of British Columbia journalism graduate students have produced eight feature stories that show there is more to Aboriginal communities than problem people and discouraging statistics. As Belinda Alzner explains, these students found there are solutions within these communities, too. Belinda Alzner
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From open data to open code: The Guardian launches Miso project
New for your reporter toolkit is code that will allow you to make data visualizations just like The Guardian. Belinda Alzner
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Resources for j-students at the CAJ Conference
Attention all j-students and recent grads: The upcoming Canadian Association of Journalists Conference has some sessions that may be of interest to you. There are tips for job seekers, networking sessions, and career panels with network executives, along with sessions that will help you develop skills you need to break into the industry. Belinda Alzner
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A journalist is a journalist, student or not: Why j-students have ethics codes too
The job of a journalism school includes providing its students with a solid journalistic ethical foundation. Rhiannon Russell compares the student ethics codes of institutions across the country—from UBC all the way to King's—and with explanation from directors and professors at some of Canada's most well-known journalism schools, lays out why, when it comes down to…
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A look inside the making of the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism
Sara Harowitz is the editor of the Summer 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, which will be launched April 5 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. Here, she talks about what it was like heading the masthead of an esteemed student-published journalism magazine and what we can look forward to in the upcoming…
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Multimedia journalism lessons for j-students, from a j-student
Melinda Maldonado, a Master of Journalism student at Ryerson University and a self-proclaimed longform writing lover is tackling a skill gap and taking a number of multimedia courses. Here, she outlines a few lessons she's picked up along the way. Belinda Alzner
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Student journos: apply now to attend ONA12
Applications are open to work in the Student Newsroom at the Online News Association's annual conference in San Francisco this September. Rhiannon Russell