School of Journalism and Communication

Welcome to our School

An institution with a story stretching back to the early 1940s.

What began as a small School with one Journalism program and seven students in 1945 has grown into an innovative and diverse multi-program community some 1,900-strong.

We offer a Bachelor of Journalism and a Master of Journalism degree. We added a Bachelor of Media Production and Design degree in Fall 2018.

We offer a Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies degree, a Master of Arts in Communication, and a PhD in Communication.

Message from the Director & Associate Director

To our new and returning students

We look forward to welcoming all students this fall. Some of you will be on campus while others will be learning online. Wherever you are, please know that we are here to support your learning needs.

The heads of our three programs – Journalism, Communication and Media Studies, and Media Production and Design – are always happy to hear from you, so please get in touch if you have questions.

Journalism: Prof. Allan Thompson, Associate Director and Journalism Program Head, at allan.thompson@carleton.ca

Communication and Media Studies: Prof. Josh Greenberg, Director and Communication Program Head, at joshua.greenberg@carleton.ca

Media Production and Design: Prof. Vicky McArthur, Program Director, at vicky.mcarthur@carleton.ca

News

March 27, 2023

CBC North Internship Program 2023, apply by April 10

Journalism students at Carleton University can once again take advantage of an opportunity to work with CBC North through a paid internship program that is exclusive to Carleton. Applications are... More

March 24, 2023

Former MPs go behind-the-scenes of Parliament Hill in new podcast

The Samara Centre for Democracy is excited to announce the launch of its new podcast, Humans of the House, a six-part series produced by Media Girlfriends. This series weaves together... More

March 13, 2023

New simulation exercise prepares Carleton students for interviews with trauma survivors

In a first for Carleton’s journalism program, an interview simulation exercise using actors is preparing journalism students for real-life interviews with trauma survivors. The innovative exercise partners students enrolled in... More

March 2, 2023

Toronto Star owner Jordan Bitove will deliver the 2023 Kesterton Lecture: The Truth We Need...

Toronto Star owner Jordan Bitove will deliver the 2023 Kesterton Lecture: The Truth We Need for the World We Want

Imagine a world without journalism. A statement like that would have been incomprehensible a decade ago. Today it is an increasingly potent threat. While the pandemic emphasized the need for... More

February 27, 2023

Duncan McCue joins Carleton’s journalism program full-time to create more Indigenous storytelling

Duncan McCue, an award-winning CBC broadcaster and leading advocate for fostering the connection between journalism and Indigenous communities, is joining Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. McCue will formally... More

February 15, 2023

Apply for the Global Journalism Internships

About the Global Journalism Internships Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication is relaunching its acclaimed Global Journalism Internship program for the spring and summer of 2023 after a suspension of... More

January 20, 2023

Award-winning author and journalist Buzz Bissinger visits Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication

Award-winning author and journalist Buzz Bissinger spent 90 minutes at Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication on Jan. 18, in conversation with Prof. Andrew Cohen and a capacity crowd of... More

January 4, 2023

School mourns the passing of Professor Emerita, Kirsten Kozolanka

The School of Journalism and Communication was saddened by the passing of Professor Emerita Kirsten Kozolanka, who was the only SJC faculty member to have been formally cross appointed to both... More

December 5, 2022

Journalism Faculty awarded SSHRC Grant to Research Pandemic Impact on Journalism Education

A project dedicated to unpacking how journalism education changed through the pandemic – and what changes promise to stick – was awarded a $21,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council... More

December 1, 2022

Sabbatical Dispatches, Part 2: Winseck Goes to Lugano

Sabbatical is a unique privilege of scholarly life. Deriving from the Latin word sabbaticus, which originally meant “rest or cessation from labor or tillage,” it refers today to an academic’s... More

November 24, 2022

Sabbatical Dispatches, Part 1: Liam Young and the Life of Salt

Sabbatical is a unique privilege of scholarly life. Deriving from the Latin word sabbaticus, which originally meant “rest or cessation from labor or tillage,” it today refers to an academic’s... More

November 15, 2022

Online hate targeting journalists the focus of major Dec. 1 event at Carleton

Carleton University’s journalism program is partnering with CBC/Radio-Canada, the #NotOK project and the Stursberg family to hold a major public event on Dec. 1 grappling with the upsurge in targeted... More