UBC j-school student and alumni win 3 B.C. journalism awards
Enza Uda (‘00), Michael Laanela (‘04), Meoni Poon (‘07) and Cecilia Greyson (‘11) win Webster Awards.
SOJ student-led news website nominated for national publishing award
The Thunderbird.ca is the only student-led news website nominated for The Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
Press Freedom in India: Lunch hour talk on Nov 4
Kanwar Sandhu, prominent Indian journalist, discusses press freedom in India.
Former LA Times editor joins J-School as Canwest Visiting Prof
Starting in January, Eric Ulken, former LATimes.com managing editor and editor of interactive technology, will be teaching students the fundamentals of visual analytics in journalism – which has been called the new photography.
J-Student wins $42,000 health communications award
First year student Rebecca Cheung (‘11) has won a CIHR Health Research Communications Award in the amount of $42,000.
Breaking the Vatican’s Walls: Lunch hour talk on Sept 30
Join Alexander Smoltczyk, Bureau Chief in Rome of Germany’s leading news magazine, Der Spiegel, for a talk on “Breaking the Vatican’s Walls”.
Grad (’02) new head of development for Brightlight Pictures
Elizabeth Levine (‘02) has been appointed Executive Director of Development at Brightlight Pictures, a company that has produced such films and television programs as White Noise, Fifty Dead Men Walking, Wicker Man and The Guard.
UBC and CBC co-host panel for Asian American Journalists Association visit
In their inaugural visit to Vancouver, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) will meet with Vancouver journalists and media professionals to discuss issues of diversity and the future of the journalism industry.
UBC j-school partners with CBC Radio 3 on music wiki project
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded a $15,000 grant to work with CBC Radio 3 to create a Canadian music wiki website.
Student starts up online news co-op
A collective of media makers in Vancouver is putting together the city’s first online, grassroots news co-operative, and Dawn Paley (Grad ‘10) is working hard to get things off the ground.