Celebrate Research Week public talk by Prof Hermida
Prof Alfred Hermida will be giving a public talk on the impact of social media on news on Wednesday March 7 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm at the Victoria Theatre, Room #182, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC.
Prof Hermida wins UBC award for media outreach
Prof Alfred Hermida has won this year’s President’s Award for Public Education through the Media which recognizes a faculty member who has made extraordinary efforts to communicate their scholarship to the public in a meaningful way using the news media.
Kim Ives to give public talk on “Wikileaks: Shedding Light on U.S. Policy in Haiti”
Kim Ives is the founding editor of the Haitian weekly newspaper Haiti Liberté, the host of a weekly Haiti show on WBAI-FM New York, and a filmmaker who has
helped produce several documentaries about Haiti. He was lead writer and editor of a series of articles published in 2011 by Haiti Liberté and The Nation magazine about
U.S. government policy in Haiti, which were based on U.S. diplomatic cables entrusted to the two publications by the Wikileaks organization.
Hilary Brown to give public talk on “The Art of the Interview”
The UBC School of Journalism is pleased to announce that Hilary Brown, former ABC News Foreign Correspondent and CBC News Anchor, will be giving a public presentation on “The Art of the Interview” on January 24th, 2012 from 1:00 to 2:00.
For UBC j-schoolers, location is (almost) everything
Students at UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism were drawn was not just to its curriculum and its professors, but its location.
Stephen Ward to give two public talks on ethics and journalism
Stephen Ward, one of the leading thinkers on journalism ethics, will be giving two public talks at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism.
Prof. David Rummel wins Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton Award
Prof. David Rummel wins Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton Award
New website to help reporters who cover Aboriginal communities
UBC School of Journalism professor Duncan McCue is launching an exciting new online journalism education resource – Reporting in Indigenous Communities (www.riic.ca) – for journalists who cover Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States and around the world. Designed for reporters by a reporter, RIIC offer useful ideas and practical methods for finding and developing news […]
Two UBC j-students named as TerreWeb scholars
UBC Journalism students Calyn Shaw and Claudia Goodine have been selected as TerreWeb scholars.
Internships take UBC journalism students from Vancouver to Moscow
UBC journalism students talk about their internship experiences at places as diverse as the Moscow Times and Canadian Geographic.