Live blog: UBC Aboriginal Health panel discussion
Prominent public health officials, geneticists, social scientists and journalists are meeting in Vancouver on Thursday March 4 to discuss new opportunities and risks that genetics presents for Aboriginal health.
UBC panel to tackle genetics and Aboriginal health
Prominent public health officials, geneticists, social scientists and journalists are meeting in Vancouver on March 4 to discuss new opportunities and risks that genetics presents for Aboriginal health.
UBC j-students get Olympic-sized opportunity
UBC journalism students are working as interns with some of the world’s best renowned media organizations that have converged on Vancouver to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics.
March 1 deadline for Canwest Visiting Professorship
This appointment, made possible by an endowment from Canwest Global Communications Corp., allows a prominent journalist from print, radio, television or online to spend three and a half months at the School of Journalism teaching a course, interacting with students and delivering two public lectures.
IBM funds UBC j-prof research into visualization in journalism
UBC journalism professor Alfred Hermida has been awarded $10,000 from IBM to support his research into the application of visualization in journalism.
Lecture: Dan Burnett on a landmark defamation decision
Join us for a lunch hour talk by Dan Burnett entitled “LANDMARK DEFAMATION DECISION – Supreme Court of Canada establishes Responsible Communication and Reportage defences,” about important new legal rulings for journalists. The Supreme Court of Canada has released a pair of rulings which alter the landscape of defamation law in Canada, Torstar v Grant […]
UBC j-school joins innovative DocumentCloud investigative project
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism has become the first Canadian j-school to join the DocumentCloud project designed to help investigative reporters share and analyse the mounds of documents they unearth.
Grad nominated for an Emmy award
Daniel Sieberg (‘00) has been nominated for an Emmy for “The Big Impact of Micro-loans”, which aired on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on April 15, 2009.
International Reporting class encourages “bold, relentless story-chasers”
The school’s new International Reporting class teaches students how to operate independently in developing countries, says Graeme Smith, Globe & Mail war correspondent.
Student wins $20,000 IDRC award
Jodie Martinson (‘10) has won an International Development Research Centre (IDRC) fellowship of $20,000 to report on the fate of wives of Ugandan rebels.