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The Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York is introducing a new master of arts degree in entrepreneurial journalism.The New York Times reports that the program will  focus…

It has been 12 years since I left the relative safety and security of Carleton’s journalism school and went out to become “a journalist”. It was mysterious, exciting and worrisome: how do…

Technology is taking over the curriculum at too many j-schools and the results are "disastrous," accorinding to a well-known journalism educator and the author of the widely-used News Reporting and Writing, now…

A Ryerson journalism instructor is teaching his students how to be mobile journalists with a little help from Motorola and Telus. Last year, Wayne MacPhail found the students in his class had a…

The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs. In a statement on its website, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary…

A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want – a job in journalism.  Laura Drake…

It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine  interacting with the content through quizzes…

If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It’s a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author of The…

A new media journalism professor in the U.S. has decided to ban laptops in some of his media classes. Jeremy Littau says he loves technology, but the evidence is building that student test scores improve in…

Start building your audience now. Understand that your journalism career started when you first posted anything to the Web and that j-school is about helping you improve it. So, conduct yourself as…