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The bogeyman is made of numbers
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February 4, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Journalists and math don’t get along well. Most journalists are afraid of numbers. Formula-scared high school students flock to journalism school so that they can get as far away from math as they can. No one enters journalism because of a profound love of mathematics. Could there be a bigger cliché about journalism?
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Salinger and the F-bomb
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February 1, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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I don’t know what it is, but there’s always the tendency in young journalism students to relish the opportunity to curse in their writing. I suspect it has something to do with spending four years in high school writing formal and appropriate papers and now, suddenly finding oneself with the freedom to pepper writing with the F-bomb and not receive an automatic F for the indiscretion. But be warned, young grasshopper: curse in moderation.
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J-schoolers take their know-how and get out of the classroom
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February 1, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario have collaborated and put their course work out there into the real world, publishing an online, multimedia series on DIY culture.
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Free newspapers! Get your free newspapers here!
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January 26, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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An MP in Scotland is plotting to offer a free one-year newspaper subscription to all young people in an effort to foster long-term readerships.
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J-schooler opposes potential college strike, strikes out
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January 20, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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A 20,000-strong Facebook protest led by a Humber College journalism student failed to prevent professors Wednesday night from giving a strike mandate to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Without a settlement, broadcast and journalism students at Ontarios colleges could be out of school as early as mid-February. Matthew Hayles reports.
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Mainstream media + j-school = BFF?
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January 19, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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The New York Times announced recently that it plans to team up with The City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and use the students to cover areas of Brooklyn. Similar partnerships have sprung up at Berkeley, Annenberg, Missouri and, in Canada, UBC. These could, undoubtedly, be great opportunities for students, but at what point does the learning stop and the exploitation begin?
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Always be ready to cover a disaster
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January 14, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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It’s likely that few journalism students worry about acquiring the skills needed to cover a large-scale disaster, like the earthquake in Haiti, but these situations come on fast and without warning, and are always devastating, so it’s important for even the greenest reporter to be prepared.
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Words to kick to the curb in 2010
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January 13, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Great words and phrases have a way of quickly becoming overused, misused and all-around annoying. Particularly irked by this is Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, which has been publishing an annual list of “banished words” for the past 35 years. This year’s exiled dictionary entries include “shovel-ready,” “bromance” and “stimulus.”
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UBC j-school teams with investigative journalism project
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January 13, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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The University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has become the first journalism school in Canada to sign on with DocumentCloud, a new project that aims to index and organize source material unearthed by investigative reporters.
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Starting from scratch: how to launch a news website
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December 22, 2009 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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With only months to go before I enter the job market, I’m hungry for all the advice that I can get from seasoned professionals. The one bit of guidance I hear more than anything else is this: Do your own thing! Start your own newspaper/magazine/online news channel. Make a name for yourself instead of waiting for the jobs to come to you. This is all good advice, but much easier said than done and I’m left wondering, where do I even start? Luckily, the Online Journalism Review has some pointers.
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Build-your-own j-school
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December 15, 2009 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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In response to the constantly changing journalism industry, which demands both diversified skills and specific expertise, the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism has just announced the introduction of a specialized journalism Master’s program, which would allow students to design their own curricula.
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Interview season
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December 14, 2009 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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It’s getting to be that time of year again. Yes, put away those twinkle lights and nicely wrapped presents because interview season is just around the corner, and you’ll want to nail it.
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edited by Melissa Wilson
Students' Lounge is a student-edited portal for j-students in Canada. It includes news, advice, internship listings and links to student work. Please contact us if you have any suggestions or would like to help. Melissa Wilson is a former intern at This Magazine. She is currently in her final year of journalism studies at Ryerson University.
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