Journalism Program News

Mount Royal University hub will build technical skills, distribute content and foster scholarship on the medium Continue Reading Community podcast initiative coming to Calgary

Declining enrolment, fewer newspaper jobs prompts revamp of program Continue Reading Niagara College journalism program in final year, to be replaced by multimedia storytelling

At a time when journalism faces a range of threats, Canadian journalism educators are building stronger links with each other and with fellow educators around the world to promote and bolster quality journalism education. Currently administered by Carleton University’s journalism program, the new association is the Canadian affiliate of the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC).…

As news media navigate a time of unparalleled disruption, training the next generation of journalists has never been more of a challenge. Continue Reading Shaping the future of news reporting

Chair responds to student criticism and needs of contemporary media. Continue Reading Concordia department of journalism chair David Secko discusses new program

New program combines skills of journalism and online media production. Continue Reading Carleton launches new Bachelor of Media Production and Design

By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor Last fall, when Patti Sonntag was invited to an event at the Banff Centre, an arts and culture school nestled in the picturesque Alberta Rockies, she looked around and had a brainwave — she thought there should be investigative trainings there. And now, there will be. In late May, the Banff…

By Magda Konieczna Missing from the Shattered Mirror report’s recommendations for Canadian journalism were insights about journalism education. A panel discussion at last week’s Canadian Communication Association conference in Toronto aimed to fill that gap. It also reflected the challenges inherent in teaching journalism against the backdrop of an evolving and struggling industry, something that…

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Shrinkhala Dawadi In recent years, several instances of sexual assault and gendered violence at universities have caused public concern , and much of the initial reporting on these stories were conducted by the student media. Sebastian Leck broke a story in the Queen’s Journal about the…

Original proposal would have created a School of Media and Information.

By Anna Augusto Rodrigues and Phil Raby What does reconciliation mean to me? This is a question we have reflected on since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action were announced in 2015. As professors who teach media courses at Durham College, we felt an urgency and responsibility to address the calls, especially number…

By Errol Salamon for Policy Options While the idea of a journalism crisis isn’t new, the perpetuation of fake news during the 2016 US presidential election, arguably, has intensified the crisis and the threat to the democratic and civic function of journalism. “Truly fake news is like counterfeit money — it has been manufactured for…

By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre  Reporters working in Canadian newsrooms should receive diversity training just like police officers and health workers do says Duncan McCue, the newly appointed Rogers Visiting Journalist at the Ryerson School of Journalism (RSJ). McCue said the training is necessary because journalists who don’t understand Indigenous cultures can cause…

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Jane Gerster The first time Patti Sonntag tried to pitch a hands-on investigative class about resource extraction companies to Canadian journalism schools she was met with enthusiastic but noncommittal interest. It was 2014 and while schools were interested in the topic, Sonntag said, the project was…

Our summary of a one-day conference in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action.

By Stephen Maher In September, Joshua Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, gave a talk about trends in the media business to the incoming Nieman fellows, 23 journalists from around the world spending a year at Harvard. He marked the first slide with an asterix: * Warning: May be depressing.…

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Come May, the only way you will be able to read The Gateway is by visiting its website or picking up its new monthly paper. The University of Alberta’s campus paper announced on Feb. 3 it would end its weekly print publication at the end of April and start prioritizing…

Kids make nutritious snacks. Snappy headline? Case of cannibalism? Or, a misplaced modifier? A modifier is an adverb, adjective or phrase that, ideally, clarifies or adds detail to your sentence. But, put it in the wrong place and you can have the opposite effect. In the fourth in a five-part series of open-source learning videos on…