Prof. Hermida on social media and the Spitzer scandal
The BBC has published an analysis piece by Prof Alfred Hermida on the tangled web of the Spitzer scandal, the prostitute and social media.
Profs work with students on telling stories in a podcast
Professors from the School of Journalism are working with students from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems on a podcasting project.
Cribb attacks ‘black hole’ of public information
Rob Cribb, award-winning journalist and this year’s CanWest Visiting Professor at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, calls for greater government openness during a talk in Vancouver.
Communicating controversial science
On Friday, February 29 from 12:30 – 1:30 at LPC Room 491, 2206 East Mall, Stephen Ward, Director of the School of Journalism, will be giving a seminar for the School of Environmental Health on the topic of Public communication of controversial scientific issues. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The Invention of Journalism Ethics – in Korean
Director Stephen J. Ward’s award-winning book The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond has been translated recently into Korean.
Burgess Lecture in Ethics
On February 14, School of Journalism Director, Stephen Ward, was invited by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin to deliver the Burgess Lecture in Ethics.
Prof Hermida speaking at MIT science journalism conference
Prof Alfred Hermida is one of the speakers taking part in the Knight 25th Anniversary Symposium: The Future of Science Journalism, to be held at MIT in Boston, February 18-20 2008.
Journalism students get an inside look at TRIUMF
Students taking the UBC Science Journalism course have witnessed the extreme in science and technology during a tour of TRIUMF, a huge particle and nuclear physics laboratory located on UBC’s South Campus.
UBC j-students work with Dan Rather on HD project
Students at the School of Journalism taking the Advanced TV Class worked with TV veteran Dan Rather on a documentary filmed in HD on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Prof. Young wins U.S. journal award
Associate Professor Mary Lynn Young, and co-author Professor David Pritchard, have won the Rufus Z. Smith Award for the best article published in the American Review of Canadian Studies in 2006.