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On the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, J-Source talked to Nick Kozak about what it was like to document the devastating aftermath as a freelance photojournalist, the business of selling photos…

If you’ve ever doubted your career choice of becoming a journalist, check out this blog post by 17 year-old Jack Davis on The Huffington Post that describes how he fell in journalism…

Global News has posted an extended version of its 2008 news-story-turned-viral-video.

Journalism.co.uk has collected a list of some of the strangest, most hilarious, and legally questionable questions that people tweeted they had been asked during journalism job interviews.

In the wake of the release of the Hollywood adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s first novel of the best-selling Millennium trilogy, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the Columbia Journalism Review has taken a look at what…

Imagine a publication that produced public-interest journalism with no paywall, no advertisements and no chasing of donors. Sounds crazy, right? The Global Mail in Australia will be doing just that.

On Dec 10 and 17, the Toronto Star ran a full-page ad on the front page of its entertainment section, despite its media kit saying advertising is not available for the front of sections.…

Tweets from the account of @Wendi_Deng this morning state that it is a fake account, and that the person behind it is not Rupert Murdoch’s wife

Jack Layton, CBC vs. Quebecor and Twitter: That's what you were reading about on J-Source this year. Here's our most-read stories of 2011: 

Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board has denied his refugee claim and rejected the appeal of an Iranian journalist who says he receieved death threats over an unpublished story he wrote surrounding the…