Question of the day: Has social media simply become plain old media?
Has social media simply become plain old media?
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Five questions for freelance photojournalist Nick Kozak
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 and whether or not reporters can (or should) double as photographers.
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How a 17 year-old fell in love with journalism
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 and why he believes it is important. In it, the young man describes how he "stumbled" onto this career aspiration and why journalism's…
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Global News re-visits viral video; Rob Leth gets ‘pwned’
Global News has posted an extended version of its 2008 news-story-turned-viral-video.
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Some of the most shocking journalism job interview questions
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.
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There may be no real-life Mikael Blomkvist, but Stieg Larsson can still help journalism: The CJR
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 the series exposes and accurately highlights about journalism — its fundamentals, struggles, and realities.
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A publication with no paywall, no ads and no donor-chasing: A reality in Australia
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.
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Why is the Toronto Star selling ads on a section’s front page?
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. The surprise? The idea for the positioning came from the Star, not the advertiser
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Putting trust in Twitter (or not): @Wendi_Deng doesn’t belong to Wendi Deng Murdoch
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
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Blatchford on Layton, Quebecor vs. CBC and Twitter: J-Source’s most-read stories of 2011
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: