Teaching Journalism

Classroom clickers: technology for technology’s sake or a helpful teaching tool? Bruce Gillespie, assistant professor in the journalism program at Wilfrid Laurier-Brantford, explains how using "clickers" in large journalism classes can be an effective tool for teaching and learning.

Six Ryerson journalism students contributed to the research and reporting of a three-part  series published recently in the Toronto Star which detailed troubling practices in some Ontario high schools. The first story, by Robert Cribb, documented how some Ontario high school students are getting into university with inflated grades purchased from some privately run, for profit schools.  The second story, was a first-hand account by a reporter, Jennifer Yang,  who posed as a summer student at a school alleged to be handing out credits and grades for a fee. The third story provided comments from students who admitted benefitting from what was essentially a black market for high school grades.

Marta Iwanek. one of the Ryerson students who helped with the series, and her teammates reflect on how the story developed, what they learned from pursuing it, and offer advice to other students interested in investigative reporting. 

Centennial College journalist in residence Lynne Russell examines the difficulties of teaching the latest crop of j-students -- many of whom believe their smart phones hold the keys to truth. This article originally appeared on PBS MediaShift.

Grant MacEwan University's Centre for the Arts and Communications (CFAC) is seeking a Journalism faculty member to teach in the Bachelor of Communication Studies (BCS) degree program and to provide leadership in the implementation of this new degree.