UBC Journalism profs win SSHRC funding for The Conversation initiative
UBC journalism professors have been awarded just under $50,000 to pursue a partnership with The Conversation to bring its unique model of collaboration between academics and editors to Canada. Faculty members from the Graduate School of Journalism will work with the Melbourne-based independent media organization to develop The Conversation Canada as the latest in the global network […]
VICE journalist Claire Ward joins UBC Journalism as Asper Visiting Professor
VICE News journalist Claire Ward is joining the UBC Graduate School of Journalism as this year’s Asper Visiting Professor. Ward will be teaching in the School’s award-winning International Reporting Program which provides student journalists with experience in the field of international reporting. The Canadian journalist has filmed, produced and shot documentaries in South Korea, Peru, […]
Mohamed Fahmy verdict denounced by UBC Journalism
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism is shocked and disappointed at the sentencing of Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, along with two other Al Jazeera journalists, by a court in Egypt. An Egyptian judge sentenced the three men to three years in prison on Saturday August 29. Fahmy has accepted a position as an adjunct professor at the journalism […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Woodward joins UBC Journalism
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Woodward is joining the UBC Graduate School of Journalism for the coming academic year 2015-2016. Woodward brings to the school more than three decades of experience as an editor and reporter for major metropolitan daily newspapers in the U.S., with a track record in pioneering new approaches to journalism. “I’m absolutely thrilled […]
Journalism student Wawmeesh Hamilton receives UBC Aboriginal award
Journalism student Wawmeesh G. Hamilton has received a UBC award for Master’s students worth a total of $16,000. Hamilton will receive $8,000 from the Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships Bridge Funding and another $8,000 in matching funds from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. The funding is awarded on the basis of academic merit, aptitude for research and leadership abilities. […]
Prof Alfred Hermida nominated for Online News Association award
UBC Journalism director Alfred Hermida has been nominated for an Online Journalism Award, one of the top accolades in digital journalism. The associate professor and author is one of two finalists in the Online Commentary category for smaller media outlets for his commentary on the role of social media in major news stories including the Ebola […]
UBC j-grad Jodie Martinson wins $15,000 reporting bursary
UBC Journalism alumni Jodie Martinson has won a $15,000 bursary to report on the musical past of slaves who fled to Canada in the mid-1800s. The Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary was announced June 2 at the annual meeting of the Gordon Sinclair Foundation. Martinson will accompany gospel singer Khari McClelland as he traces the journey of […]
Student Wawmeesh G. Hamilton awarded CJF Aboriginal fellowship
UBC Journalism student Wawmeesh G. Hamilton has been awarded the 2015 Canadian Journalism Foundation Aboriginal Journalism Fellowship. The award provides a stipend of $3,000, travel and accommodation costs and other related expenses for each fellow. It is designed to allow two Aboriginal journalists the opportunity to explore issues of interest to First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples, based […]