Western University is accepting applications for the CanWest Global Fellowship in Media Deadline: July 1, 2013 or until position is filled. The Fellow will promote public discussion on the nature of Canadian media. The successful candidate will be in residence for either the fall 2013 or winter 2014 term at Western University and will receive…
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.
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)
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
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
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
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…