Announcements

Talk: Academia and China’s brave new media world

Yuezhi Zhao, Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

UBC panel on international human rights

Prof Alfred Hermida will be talking about social media and political change at a panel discussion at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver on Thursday 18.

Student music wiki project honoured in SNCR awards

CBC-UBC j-school music wiki project has received a Commendation of Merit in the prestigious SNCR Excellence in New Communications Awards program.

Peter Klein Vancouver Institute lecture Nov. 6

Digital Dumping Ground: The Global Trade in Electronic Waste

UBC law and journalism schools partner to investigate wrongful convictions

UBC law and journalism schools partner to investigate wrongful convictions

UBC grad student, alumni and prof win B.C. journalism awards

Adjunct Professor Duncan McCue, Cheryl Chan (‘06) and Ryan Elias (‘11) win Jack Webster awards.

Prof. Hermida’s blog wins Canadian online award

Prof Alfred Hermida’s blog on the changing nature of journalism, Reportr.net, has won a prestigious Canadian Online Publishing Award.

Grad (‘07) joins the Globe and Mail

Katherine Scarrow hired as editor for the Globe & Mail

IBM hosts visualization workshop with Prof. Hermida

Prof Hermida is leading a workshop on visualization in journalism at an IBM conference in Toronto on November 2.

Talk: Prof. Callison on spinning climate change

Please join us 5-6:30pm on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at Green College Coach House as Candis Callison speaks on “Spinning climate change, vernaculars and emergent forms of life.”