In my first-year introduction to reporting and writing course, I set a weekly news quiz to encourage students to follow the news on a regular basis. Reading or watching the news every day is the best way to understand how a news cycle works and what is generally considered newsworthy….
Category: Journalism education
Laurier Brantford hiring a radio journalism instructor
Laurier Brantford is hiring an instructor to teach our first-year radio journalism course next semester. The application deadline is Friday, November 16, and you can find all of the details here. (It’s sometimes tricky to link directly to a specific job posting on the site, so you may have to…
Millennials and the news
After spending a few minutes trying to figure out how to explain my reaction to Paula Poindexter’s research about the news consumption habits of the millennial generation in 140 characters or less (beyond my original reaction: “Yikes”), I decided to give up and blog about it instead. First, some background….
Five things I wish I knew before starting j-school
Fourth-year Ryerson University journalism student Angelina Irinici has a great post up at J-Source about five things she wishes someone had told her before starting j-school. It’s a great post with excellent advice for any new journalism student. Here’s an excerpt: Journalists should always have a good idea of what’s…
Why’s this so good?
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard runs a handful of useful websites for journalists and journalism students. My favourite is Nieman Storyboard, which publishes two ongoing series: Notable Narratives, which features detailed interviews with journalists about the back story to a given piece of their work, and Why’s This…