Journalism Schools in Alberta Invite News and Work from NonProfit Organizations
Alberta’s largest cities boast a solid roster of journalism schools. Their roots date back to when Walter Cronkite dominated the broadcast world and Rolling Stone was just a newcomer on the newsstands. Since the 1960s, Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Calgary’s SAIT Polytechnic (SAIT) have offered two-year journalism diplomas that deliver fast-track, hands-on education. “We’re trying to get students work-ready,” said Willem Sijpheer, journalism chair at SAIT. “We do simulate a lot of the industry practices. The students seem to be more successful doing it this way. They like…living it, rather than just doing it out of a book.” SAIT has a program that lets students specialize in print and online journalism or photojournalism. Read more 
Learn to Write Humour: The Business of Funny in MacEwan’s Writing Works Program, November 1 to 29, 2011
Learn the basics of using humour to write comedic non-fiction and short stories. Your writing will come alive when you learn—from a professional comedian—how to tap your sense of humour to write for pleasure, profit, or publication. You will be invited to share some of your own comedic short stories or essays with the class. $174, noncredit.
WRIT 0136-OP01
5 Tues, Nov 1 – 29, 2011
6:30 pm – 9 pm
Instructor: Barbara North
For more information and to register call Theresa Agnew, Program Director for MacEwan’s Writing Works Program at 780-497-5366. Please tell her you saw the posting here.
MacEwan University Rebrands their Student Newspaper to The Griff in September
Come September MacEwan will rebrand their student newspaper from Intercamp to The Griff with a nod to their athletic teams, The Griffins. The student newspaper began as a newsletter in the early 1990s when MacEwan was still a community college. This name Intercamp reflected and united the four individual campuses that make up MacEwan. When MacEwan dropped community from its name in 1999, Intercamp was being published as a full-fledged newspaper. MacEwan has come a long way since then, and to celebrate this evolution, they decided it was time the student newspaper followed suit. See the rest of the posting by Jenny Feniak, former events reporter for the Edmonton Sun.
Marilyn
Jones is a corporate and social media advocate for individuals, small businesses
and nonprofit organizations in Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada and is the proprietor of RiverCity Productions. You can contact her
by phone at 780-695-5675 or by email at marilyn@mediamag.ca.