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As editor of the student newspaper at the University of British Columbia, I see hundreds of undergraduate students come through our doors each year. They're all interested in learning about journalism, making their first unsteady steps in the field.

The Tyee – What Sean Holman Taught Me

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/11/04/What-Holman-Taught-Me/
This house has been standing in Manhattan since 1788 —built by Nicholas Cruger who bought a parcel of Watts Farm (which in current day geography stretched from East 21st Street to East 30th Street). http://gothamist.com/2011/09/22/have_you_seen_this_farmhouse_in_man.php

Have You Seen This Farmhouse In Manhattan?: Gothamist

How journalists are using the iPad to enhance their reporting | Poynter.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/142139/how-journalists-are-using-mobile-devices-to-enhance-their-reporting/ Many journalists know what it’s like to have a source freeze when you pull out a microphone or start recording them on camera.
The students Wayne MacPhail sees know practically nothing about the online world or emerging media; their journalistic training reaches only a tentative few feet beyond the same traditional media it always has. http://j-source.ca/article/journalism-teachers-are-failing-their-students

The Canadian Journalism Project

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/business-news/newspay/105541/10-ways-journalism-around-the-world-is-being-revived-and-reinvented/

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Prepping for a session for the International Press Institute (IPI) annual congress last week in Vienna, I asked the panelists, among other things, to describe a media trend they find encouraging.

The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation - Jay Rosen: Public Notebook

http://jayrosen.posterous.com/the-journalists-formerly-known-as-the-media-m This is adapted and expanded from the Inaugural Lecture I gave to the incoming class at Sciences Po é cole du journalisme in Paris, September 2, 2010: their first day.