The School of Journalism is pleased to announce that Diane Nottle and Steve Pratt will be joining the School as Canwest Visiting Professors for 2011/2012.
Nottle brings to the School 20 years of experience in covering arts and culture for The New York Times, while Pratt, director of CBC Radio 3, is an experienced and innovative leader in new media.
Bringing together such talented expertise in arts and culture from diverse backgrounds, Nottle and Pratt will help develop and teach the School of Journalism’s very first graduate course on Arts and Culture Journalism (JRNL 539O).
In the course, students will examine the scope of the local and national arts scenes, including fine arts, music, dance, theatre and other forms of performance. Students will also study the state of arts journalism today, while developing practical and creative skills on multiple platforms. They will gain insight into how arts coverage fits into the media at large, along with guidance on arts journalism as a viable career option.
“We’re very excited to have two such creative minds collaborating on this new course,” said Prof. Peter W. Klein, acting director of the School. “Many students come to our program with serious interest in arts reporting, and we’re happy to finally be able to offer such a course.”
Diane Nottle is an independent writer, editor and educator from New York, NY. She worked for The New York Times for 20 years as an editor specializing in arts and culture and most recently she was the deputy editor for classical music and dance.
As a freelance writer and editor, Nottle has been published widely throughout North America, including in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, as well as internationally, including in The National, The English-Language Newspaper in Abu Dhabi, and China Daily USA.
Nottle was the recipient of The New York Times visiting media fellowship at the De Witt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism’s Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University (1995) and the English-Speaking Union’s fellowship at Oxford University (1996).
She received her B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from Pennsylvania State University in 1975 and later went on to complete her Master of Liberal Studies degree at Boston University.
Currently, Nottle is writing Traveling in Tongues, a memoir of language and travel and collaborating on The Leap, a non-fiction book featuring artistic directors of ballet companies.
Steve Pratt is a director, producer, reporter and public speaker from Vancouver, BC. He has been a director and producer for CTV, YTV, Much News, Much Music, Chum Television, and City TV.
Currently, Pratt is the director of CBC Radio 3 and CBC Radio Digital Programming. In this position, Pratt has been instrumental in the creation of the CBC Radio 3 podcast – one of the first and most popular legal music podcasts worldwide.
Radio 3 is recognized as a leader in multi-platform content distribution and adoption of social media into traditional media programming. It continues to raise awareness of Canadian independent music around the world.
Pratt is also an accomplished public speaker who has presented both nationally and internationally. He has been the keynote speaker at such events as TEDx Rocky Mountains in Banff (2010), Radio Days Europe in Copenhagen (2010), Multimedia Meets Radio in Prague (2009), Northern Voice in Vancouver (2009) and nextMedia in Banff (2008).
Pratt received his B.A. honours in English literature from McGill University in 1994 and has since completed several managements and leadership training programs.
