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Larry Cornies is coordinator of both the print journalism and new media programs at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ont., and teaches journalism ethics at the University of Western Ontario in London. Previously, he was an A-section page editor at The Globe and Mail, Toronto; Maclean-Hunter Chair of Communication Ethics at Ryerson University's School of Journalism, Toronto; and Editor of The London Free Press, London, Ont. He continues to write a weekly column for The London Free Press.

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New tools for journalists will change postsecondary programs

After a week of intensive training at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., my thinking about how we train journalists has changed in some ways and remained firm in others.
I became convinced of the Poynter faculty’s argument that journalism instructors in our universities and colleges need to become “platform agnostic.” Taken to its ultimate [...]

July 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Journalism, Journalism education, Technology | Leave a comment