Prof. Hermida nominated as Canada’s top social media maven
UBC journalism professor Alfred Hermida has been nominated as Canada’s top social media maven in the 2011 Digi Awards.
David Rummel of The New York Times joins UBC Journalism
David Rummel has joined the UBC Graduate School of Journalism as an instructor for the 2011/2012 year.
UBC Journalism hosts panel on how social media are changing journalism
Please join us on Monday 7 November, 7.00 p.m. at UBC Robson to hear journalists and researchers at the forefront of the social media revolution discuss the implications for journalism at a time when the profession is trying to reinvent itself.
The New York Times and CBC Radio 3 journalists join UBC Journalism as visiting profs
The School of Journalism is pleased to announce that Diane Nottle and Steve Pratt will be joining the School as Canwest Visiting Professors for 2011/2012.
International Reporting Program global pain project to be featured on Global
International Reporting Fellows from the UBC School of Journalism reported on the causes — and devastating effects — of the lack of access to pain medication around the globe as part of the 2010-2011 International Reporting Program Pain Project. The report, Life in Pain, will be featured in a two-part piece on the Global program 16×9 […]
UBC j-students win two 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Students at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism have won two 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
Two UBC journalism students win Jack Webster student awards
UBC journalism students Lisa Hale and Calyn Shaw have won two of the six Jack Webster Student Journalism Awards for 2011.
CBC President Hubert Lacroix meets UBC j-students
Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, addressed UBC journalism students on the future of Canadian public broadcasting at the Liu Institute for Global Affairs, UBC, on October 18 2011.
UBC Journalism gets 5 Canadian Online Publishing Awards nominations
Students and faculty at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism have received five nominations in the 2011 Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
UBC j-school’s new website investigates access to morphine
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism has launched an ambitious multimedia site, The Pain Project, to document one of the greatest challenges to treating chronic illnesses: severely constrained access to morphine.