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Journalism students are criticized for using the tweet greet—asking a source for an interview via Twitter—as a first attempt at making contact. Dan Reimold, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Tampa in Florida, blogged that the tweet greet—not to be mistaken for crowdsourcing—must be the last resort, if resorted to at all. But… Continue reading The etiquette of the tweet greet

My affectionate position toward unpaid internships may come as a surprise for two reasons: A. I am broke. B. I am also an unpaid intern. For the second time in my life, I am working for free—by choice. In fact, I practically begged for the internship I have now. I applied by email, then by… Continue reading In defense of the unpaid intership

You’ve almost got to feel bad for now-defunct British tabloid newspaper News of the World. Self-proclaimed as “The World’s Greatest Newspaper” with top-spot circulation, the 168-year old newspaper published its last edition on Sunday, bidding a “very proud farewell”  to its readers amidst a phone-hacking scandal that started out with a dead 13-year-old’s phone and… Continue reading News of the World hoisted on own scandal-loving petard

Until last Thursday, Kai Nagata was the CTV Quebec City Bureau Chief at the tender age of 24. By the weekend, he had the Canadian news industry talking and the Twitter world buzzing when he quit a job many could only dream of and published a 3,000 word manifesto on his blog about why. “I… Continue reading Canadian journalist incites controversy after leaving CTV

The Ryerson Review of Journalism recently won six awards in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) student magazine contest, including the Winter 2011 issue finishing first place in the Single Issue of an Ongoing Print Magazine category. The rest of the winners, as well as links to their stories, are as… Continue reading RRJ wins six AEJMC awards