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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 academic program of information and communication technology and…

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 graduated from Carleton University’s School of Journalism…

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 and other feature or highlighting text for others to…

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 Digital Journalist’s Handbook and the blog 10,000 Words…

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 classes where laptops are banned. He is also concerned about…

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 a journalist at all times. Those are just…

The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkley is considering a new, professional fee for its program. The School is considering charging its new students an additional $5,000 over and above their tuition, similar to those charged…

by Peter Johansen and Mary McGuire Applications to Ontario's degree programs in Journalism are down compared to this time last year, according to data released last month by the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre in Guelph.  The number of confirmed admissions is…

When preparing to teach a journalism course, especially for the first time, it’s always helpful to find out what other j-educators do who teach the same kind of course. Now Poynter’s News University has established a Syllabus Exchange, a…

It’s a video journalist’s dream to be nominated for an Emmy. Now, it’s a dream come true for a group of students studying to be journalists at the University of British Columbia. Ten students studying international reporting have been nominated…