Now on J-Source: Summer's top j-stories; How much do journalists make?; 5Q for Kim Kierans on teaching in the Philippines

TORONTO, Aug. 29, 2012 /CNW/ -

FEATURES

J-News
End-of-summer roundup: The biggest j-stories you might have missed
Summer brings with it a whole slew of distractions, but now that September is just around the corner, it's time to catch up on the things you may have missed. Belinda Alzner rounds up some of the biggest stories about the Canadian journalism industry that were talked about on J-Source this summer.
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People
Five questions for Kim Kierans on teaching journalists in the Philippines
Every summer for the last six years, Kim Kierans has travelled to the Philippines to teach working journalists new skills and help them develop old ones. Angelina Irinici finds out what unique challenges these journalists face in terms of ethics and press freedom and why Kierans' biggest desire is to become obsolete.
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Students' Lounge
How much do journalists make?
"I'm in it to find the truth/hold power to account/tell peoples' stories — not for the money" will surely be the answer you get if you ask a journalist why he or she is in the industry. But realistically, how much can a journalist expect to make throughout his or her career? Angelina Irinici and Belinda Alzner found the numbers for a number of mainstream media organizations.
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Visual Journalism
The ethics of staging
When it comes to television journalism, what is considered "staging" and where do you draw the line? Daniel Viola won an AEJMC Award in Chicago earlier this month for this piece, which examines television staging of varying degrees -- from recreating scenes, to asking sources to walk down a hallway or type at a computer -- and asks whether one type is more ethically acceptable than any other.
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Teaching Journalism
ICYMI: Back-to-School instructors' resources
In case you missed it last week, here it is again: 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)

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Keep an eye out next week for our Students' Resources, our third annual Back-to-School J-Quiz, and a special back-to-school giveaway.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• Sept. 5: Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2012: The Assault on Reason, ON
• Sept. 11: MASS Special Event: The Great Stagnation with Tyler Cowen, ON
• Sept. 13: CJF J-Talk: Yes, Genius, the Sky is Falling. So Now What? ON
• Sept. 18: Fast Break Sports Journalism Panel, ON
• Sept. 27: jhr's Night for Rights, ON

IN THE NEWS

» Ryerson appoints Paul Woods as Rogers distinguished visiting professor in journalism
» Former NFB president Jaques Bensimon passes away
» Applications are open for $5,000 Tyee reporting fellowships
» Using ScribbleLive in the classroom
» Megan Leslie quote misattribution 'a huge error in haste': The Hill Times reporter
» Access to Information Act review coming
» Canadian journalist wins international agricultural journalism award

TOWN HALL

Felix Salmon at Wired, when writing of the paywall at The New York Times, says it is "working." Salmon also offers examples of museums that have allowed free entry experiencing their memberships increasing. What it comes down to is content. Do PostMedia papers print what people are willing to buy? Especially after getting it for free for so long?
Reader: Ian Paulson
Article: Postmedia implements paywalls on four newspapers' websites

J-Source and ProjetJ are projects of The Canadian Journalism Foundation in collaboration with leading journalism schools and organizations.

CJF News: The CJF J-Talk on September 13 with The New York Times' David Carr, in conversation with CBC's Michael Enright, is sold out. If you are unable to attend the event, J-Source will livestream and liveblog the event and you can also follow #cjfjtalk on Twitter. After the event, you can watch the broadcast on CPAC or listen to the podcast at www.cjf-fjc.ca/j-talks.

SOURCE: Canadian Journalism Foundation