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Television Journalism Stories
Students in the Graduate Program of Journalism in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western produce stories in all media – video, audio, print and online. Here are a few examples of the visual story telling they did this past year. Jeremy Copeland is the TV journalism instructor for the Journalism Program at Western.…
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Print class 2013 signs off
Welcome to the features issue of Western Journalism Report. The 2013 class of print journalism students have travelled throughout the community and across the web touching base with experts around the world to bring you this range of stories. As our class heads out to pursue their future writing careers, we leave behind a collection of articles…
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The nine (million) lives of Internet cats
In the electronic jungle, one animal rules the page view counts and claims millions of followers every second. Who is this powerful creature that tames even the wildest corners of the Internet? The average household cat. Cats are the not-so-secret key to Internet superstardom, an online phenomenon that has taken social media and the web…
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Robopocalypse Now? Not so fast
The robots are coming. The machines will rise. It’s known as “the singularity.” It’s that moment when machines reach and then surpass human intelligence, and the idea has captivated mankind for decades. “It’s an idea that stems from that psychotic dream of unlimited power – it promises omniscience, omnipotence, it promises you’ll become a god,”…