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Highlights: How to land your dream internship in a newsroom
As journalism students gear up for internship interviews, J-Source is hosting a live chat with hiring experts in four different newsrooms. Here's your opportunity to ask questions of Valerie Casselton, managing editor…
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Live chat: How to get your dream internship in a newsroom
As journalism students gear up for internship interviews, J-Source is hosting a live chat with hiring experts in four different newsrooms. Here's your opportunity to ask questions of Valerie Casselton, managing editor…
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How to get rich at unpaid internships
Internships vary, but the first rule of any internship — and especially of unpaid internships — is always the same: don’t end up making coffee, writes Ryerson student Mitchell Cohen. But he…
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Student newspapers launch alternative newswire to Canadian University Press
Several student newspapers have left the non-profit co-operative Canadian University Press and started an alternative called the National University Wire. Those who left say a combination of high membership fees and little-used…
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Top 10 tips for getting through your first semester of j-school
So you’ve decided to go to j-school? Don’t worry—we’ll help you! Two former teaching assistants from Western University offer their advice for getting through it all.
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Back to school: Resources for journalism students
J-Source has compiled some great back-to-school resources to help students get back in the groove.
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How some student newspapers have made drastic changes to survive the drop in advertising
Canadian student newspapers have been hit hard by the same decline in print advertising that’s hurt many newspapers in recent years and that means big changes are coming this fall to how…
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$25,000 in goods stolen from Oregon journalism and media students in Ghana
A group of journalism and media students working in Africa are devastated after thousands of dollars worth of equipment was stolen from them as they slept. The students (16 in total) were…
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New app to provide real-time audio editing and collaboration, ‘like Google Docs’
Audio editing news pieces can be time-consuming, so a group has collaborated to create a mobile phone app — which is still being tested — to streamline the process “like Google Docs…
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Newsana is looking for community interns for the fall term (unpaid)
Newsana – a leading news/community startup – is looking for two rock star interns to help us redefine the news industry. Newsana is where people come to find the ideas that make…