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How to keep your cover letter out of the trash bin
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September 1, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Though next year's summer internships are a while away, it's important to keep your cover letter and resume fresh and current and, most of all, interesting. PoynterOnline offers six tips for keeping your application fresh...
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Beyond J-School
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September 1, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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MediaShift has introduced a new series that will look at the current state of journalism school, and how journalism education is rapidly changing. It's already become clear that a journalism degree isn't enough to secure a future in the business, and MediaShift explores the different avenues students can take to come out with a well-rounded resume. Check out the first piece, How to teach social media in J-school.
Two pieces of the nine-part series have been published already, and the remainder will be published over the next two weeks. Stay tuned!
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Google tips for journalists
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August 31, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Google has offered up some tips and tricks for journalists looking to get the most out of their Googling...
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The Twitter school of editing
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August 27, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Twitter may be full of self-indulgence and self-promotion, but don't knock what it can do for you as a journalist...
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J-school to close at one U.S. university
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August 27, 2010 - Posted by Mary McGuire
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The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs.
In a statement on its website, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology and has set up an exploratory committee to help it do that.
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J-School offers no job guarantees
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August 27, 2010 - Posted by Mary McGuire
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A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want - a job in journalism.
Laura Drake graduated from Carleton University's School of Journalism in 2007 and has worked for three major daily newspapers in Canada.
In a column at macleans.ca she offers some advice to those who want to go to j-school.
"What a journalism undergraduate degree will get you are amazing memories, good connections with profs who know hundreds of working journalists, marketable skills in the form of writing and communications abilities. What it will not get you, and what no one ever promises it will get you, is a job in journalism."
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Take charge of that journalism project
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August 24, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor
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Think you can get away with just a pen and a notebook? Think again! You can still specialize, but expect to get outside of your comfort zone once in a while, because it's all about the multi-platform project these days...
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Replacing textbooks with an iPad
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August 24, 2010 - Posted by Mary McGuire
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It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine interacting with the content through quizzes and other feature or highlighting text for others to see and sharing comments on passages with classmates.
Those are some of the things promised by a new textbook application for the iPad that some universities in the U.S. began using this week.
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Exceptional multimedia student projects
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August 24, 2010 - Posted by Mary McGuire
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If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It's a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author of The Digital Journalist's Handbook and the blog 10,000 Words.
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Banning laptops in media classes without being a Luddite
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August 23, 2010 - Posted by Mary McGuire
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A new media journalism professor in the U.S. has decided to ban laptops in some of his media classes.
Jeremy Littau says he loves technology, but the evidence is building that student test scores improve in classes where laptops are banned. He is also concerned about what he calls "the halo effect."
"When a student has a laptop open, invariably the cone of people next to and behind that student get caught up watching as well. The movie playing or the Facebook page on the screen can be a huge distraction to both those students and to me."
He outlines his new "soft ban" on his blog. Other J-profs may find his thoughtful arguments and approach worth following.
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Traditional media gets second life
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August 31, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Traditional media are scrambling to create online communities. A report on who’s doing it right—and who’s doing it wrong. This week we feature Rodney Barnes' story from the spring issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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Back to school advice for J-students
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August 23, 2010 - Posted by Mary McGuire
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- Start building your audience now.
- Understand that your journalism career started when you first posted anything to the Web and that j-school is about helping you improve it.
- So, conduct yourself as a journalist at all times.
Those are just some of the useful tips for journalism students heading back to school posted at the Online Journalism Review by Robert Niles, a reporter, web publisher and long-time journalism instructor.
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The secret to staying on top (of the news)
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August 20, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson speaks with the Atlantic Wire about how he stays informed without falling victim to the constant torrent of information...
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What a magazine can do that an iPad can't
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August 20, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Esquire's September issue back page lists "Things a magazine can do that an iPad can't (Because our app will do a lot, but it won't have cologne strips, either)...
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