Duncan McCue, adjunct professor at UBC Graduate School of Journalism, has been awarded a prestigious International Knight Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year at Stanford University in California.
The Knight Fellowship offers international journalists a year to study and research journalism. The program focuses on developing and strengthening press freedoms around the world.
Duncan plans to develop cross-cultural training materials to assist reporters covering aboriginal communities, and lay the groundwork for the development of a First Nations citizen journalism website.
Duncan has been a reporter for CBC-TV News in Vancouver for a dozen years. His award-winning news and current affairs pieces are featured on CBC’s flagship news show, The National. Recent honours include a network RTNDA Award for Best Long Feature, and his second regional RTNDA Diversity Award, for coverage of aboriginal issues.
He is also an Adjunct Professor at the UBC School of Journalism, and has taught journalism to indigenous students at First Nations University and Capilano College.
Before becoming a journalist, he studied law at UBC. He was called to the Bar in British Columbia in 1998. He is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario. He lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver.
