We’ve all done it; inserted a “smiley-face” at the end of a flirtatious text message or a “sad-face” emoticon after a friend has poured her heart out online because, let’s face it, you weren’t really paying attention and didn’t know what else to type back. Modern day emoticons that many of people use on a day-to-day… Continue reading A picture is worth a thousand keystrokes

Jim Wilkes, or “Newsboy,” as he is called at the Toronto Star, said farewell to his colleagues on January 13 after more than 36 years as a photographer and reporter for the publication. To commemorate his long career, the Star said goodbye in both a print article and a blog post, which featured some of Wilkes’s most memorable works as… Continue reading The Toronto Star bids its beloved “Newsboy” adieu

t doesn’t look like it’s getting any easier to be a journalist. The Halifax Media Group, which bought a chain of small and medium-sized American newspapers from the New York Times Company for $143 million, has been getting national attention for a string of corporate decisions. The first was on January 9, when it was reported that the… Continue reading Halifax Media thinks you’re a sloppy dresser

For some of us, journalism is a calling that we realized from the moment we could string words into sentences. For others, this moment of realization—the light bulb going on in our heads—was somewhat delayed. In a post that appeared in The Huffington Post’s High School section earlier this week, 17-year-old Jack Davis recalled the moment he first… Continue reading The “Aha Moment” with Journalism

Ladies’ Home Journal is taking open journalism one step further: to the magazine world. The publication announced on January 10 that its content will soon be written almost entirely by readers.   Pros: • Majority of the staff still keep their jobs, now working as fact-checks and helping develop the readers’ stories. • Readers will be paid professional… Continue reading Ladies’ Home Journal now written by the reader