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NHL playoffs a busy time: for some more than others
Thomas Drance is thankful for Twitter – perhaps more than your typical social media junkie. Without it, he might not have a career. Immediately following graduation from the University of Toronto in 2009, the only work he could find was as a bus tour guide. When that seasonal work ended, he eventually landed in a…
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Moving the state of journalism one story at a time
Desmond Cole, host of a self-titled show on News Talk 1010, was caught during a phone interview in the middle of some very important work. “I feel I would say perpetually disorganized,” he said. “I’m sitting at my computer imagining how much more organized I can be: it’s been a very productive afternoon.” …
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Kaleigh Rogers: A day in the life of New York’s finest online journalist
She could have been a scientist. But she made a different decision. And that choice has led a woman who grew up in a town of just over 400 people to the largest city in North America. Meet Kaleigh Rogers of Hepworth, Ont., digital journalist for Vice’s Motherboard in New York City. Let your guard…
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The importance of multimedia journalists, according to one
It is no secret that the world of news reporting is changing form rapidly thanks to the Internet. For one of the Edmonton Journal’s web editors, Stuart Thomson, this makes his job exciting. “I think the best part about my job is there is no normal day,” he said over the phone from his desk…