Category Archives: Journalism education

Campus reverie

For most teachers and students, school’s out for the summer. The great, yawning gap of July and August provides a respite from daily and weekly routines. Not so for me: July and August bring seven weeks of teaching and mentoring in … Continue reading

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Reporting on journalists in harm’s way

There were a number of very interesting seminars and panel discussions at this year’s national conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists in Montreal in late May. Among conferees, the most popular panels were those on “Ottawa’s Information Lockdown and … Continue reading

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Teaching journalism — differently

About six months after I finished my graduate journalism degree in the mid-1980s, the University of Western Ontario asked me to return as a sessional instructor. A faculty member had taken ill, and her courses in the history of Canadian … Continue reading

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St. Petersburg’s pier, on a warm summer evening

Steven Spielberg I’m not. But here’s the first attempt of a career print journalist to shoot and edit digital video — you pros must promise to stifle your chuckles. I know, I know  . . . some shots are too … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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