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Aug 22, 2012, 17:38 ET

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Teaching Journalism
Back to School: Instructors' resources edition
J-Source education editor Mary McGuire has compiled this vast list of resources for journalism instructors to use in their classrooms this fall. We've broken it down into three categories:

  • The Basics (reporting, writing, interviewing and ethics)
  • Broadcast/Visual Journalism (audio, video and photography)
  • New Media (social media, blogging, data visualization and multimedia storytelling)

Ethics
Gender challenge: is 'they' the new s/he?
Sometimes sources choose not to self-identify as 'he' or 'she'. Journalists must try to be sensitive to their wishes. The use of 'they' as a gender-neutral singular pronoun is one possibility. Katie Toth talks to journalists, editors and activists to explore this as an ethical option.
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People
Lorne Rubenstein: As rare as a double eagle
When he announced his retirement in July, The Globe and Mail golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein was surprised at the reaction he received from readers; he was a unique and invaluable voice in the world of golf, consensus showed. Jeff Krever sat down with Rubenstein to talk about how the 32-year veteran golf columnist began writing on the now-unique beat, and how he changed his mind about retirement, showing he isn't quite ready to give up writing about the sport he loves.
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J-News
Postmedia implements paywalls on four newspapers' websites
Belinda Alzner reports that Postmedia has gone live with paywalls on four of its newspapers' websites, making users pay for content they read online when they exceed the number of free articles allotted per month. Here is what it means for readers.
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Students' Lounge
Five questions for Sam Eifling on UBC-New York Times reporting on Brazil land claims
Students from the University of British Columbia School of Journalism recently had their reporting on the violence and bloodshed surrounding Brazil's land claim disputes featured in The New York Times. Angelina Irinici talks to Sam Eifling, one of the students in the UBC International Reporting class, about the project, the importance of preparation and the results their reporting produced.
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TOWN HALL

I too live in Scarborough. I even lived on Danzig St back in the seventies while I worked at the Scarborough Mirror, prior to going to the Toronto Sun. I've been a journalist for 35 years ... Why should the people at Danzig be treated any differently than a shooting in Rosedale? The media would still swoop in and out and still have no idea if what that neighbourhood was about because the media, for the most part doesn't live there either.

Reader: Hammerman
Article: Media coverage of Danzig St. shooting: the opinion of a journalist from Scarborough

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