Category / Teaching Aids

Another documentary radio program on NPR, which prides itself on featuring stories that are the aural equivalent of photojournalism — ones that make creative and inventive use of sound for storytelling.

A site for anyone looking for examples of geat radio storytelling from NPR.

Two university professors in Minnesota are using a graphically-sophisticated computer game, produced by a Canadian gaming company, in which the students transform the medieval wizards and rogues into news editors, reporters, and…

A select list of links from the Investigative Reporters and Editors to some of the best courses in computer-assisted and investigative reporting.

An article, from the Poynter Institute, about how computer-assisted reporting enriches newspaper stories.

More from the Online Journalism Review about launching online journalism courses at the university level, which includes interviews with Canadian as well as American instructors.

A broad collection of links to a variety of university-level computer-assisted reporting courses.

The Online Journalism Review published a list of resources for teaching online journalism in 2004, which includes a links to course syllabi, including Canadian ones.

A collection of resources for anyone looking for thought-provoking television journalism from PBS.

An article from Poynter Online about how one print reporter learned to write better, tighter and shorter from following the advice of radio reporters.