Category / Teaching Aids
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Television: problem to be managed or instrument to be played?
Long-time television producer and broadcast journalist-turned-j-school professor Alan Echenberg on how to inspire great TV journalism.
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Journalism teachers are failing their students
The students Wayne MacPhail sees know practically nothing about the online world or emerging media; their journalistic training reaches only a tentative few feet beyond the same traditional media it always has.…
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New degree program in Entrepreneurial Journalism
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…
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A working journalist reflects on becoming a new j-teacher
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…
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A legendary j-educator slams what’s happening in j-schools these days
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…
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Ryerson students go mobile, thanks to Motorola and Telus
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…
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J-school to close at one U.S. university
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…
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J-School offers no job guarantees
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…
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Replacing textbooks with an iPad
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…
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Exceptional multimedia student projects
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…