Journalism News

The CBC’s Ginella Massa headlines orientation for journalism students

The CBC’s Ginella Massa headlines orientation for journalism students

Carleton University’s journalism program welcomed Ginella Massa, host of CBC’s Canada Tonight, to share her story at the first in-person event for students since March of 2020. The orientation day... More

Canadian journalism educators urge action to help Afghan journalists

Canadian journalism educators urge action to help Afghan journalists

(Aug. 24, 2021) — As journalism educators in Canada, we, the undersigned, join with other advocates of global press freedom to urge the Canadian government and other nations around the... More

Virtual reality to provide vaccine facts to combat hesitancy

Virtual reality to provide vaccine facts to combat hesitancy

Carleton project already in the field tracking diversity among party candidate slates

Carleton project already in the field tracking diversity among party candidate slates

As Canada’s major political parties finalize candidate nominations ahead of the Sept. 20 election, a project at Carleton University will help determine whether the candidates are representative of an increasingly... More

Veteran journalists join Carleton’s journalism program this fall as contract instructors

Veteran journalists join Carleton’s journalism program this fall as contract instructors

Ten veteran journalists from the CBC, CTV, The Hill Times and other outlets have joined the journalism program’s team of contract instructors for the fall term, along with a number... More

Nana aba Duncan delivers keynote at major journalism education conference

Nana aba Duncan delivers keynote at major journalism education conference

Nana aba Duncan, the new Carty Chair in Journalism, Diversity and Inclusion Studies at Carleton’s journalism school, is delivering a keynote today at the 104th annual Association for Education in... More

Journalism grad’s radio series on the Rwanda genocide to air on BBC Radio

Journalism grad’s radio series on the Rwanda genocide to air on BBC Radio

The first episode in a new five-part radio series on the Rwanda genocide by Carleton MJ grad Alice Musabende goes to air on BBC Radio 4 next Monday. Musabende is... More

Graham, Popplewell earn prestigious Carleton teaching awards

Graham, Popplewell earn prestigious Carleton teaching awards

School of Journalism and Communication faculty members Brett Popplewell and Katie Graham have been honoured with 2021 Carleton University Teaching Awards, joining eight other Carleton professors who were recognized as... More

Sarah Everts’ groundbreaking book on sweat recommended by The New York Times and Oprah Daily

Sarah Everts’ groundbreaking book on sweat recommended by The New York Times and Oprah Daily

By Jena Lynde-Smith A new book by Carleton journalism professor Sarah Everts – The Joy of Sweat – has already attracted high praise from the likes of the New York... More

Boswell column prompts renaming of ‘Chief William Commanda Bridge’

Boswell column prompts renaming of ‘Chief William Commanda Bridge’

An idea proposed last year by Carleton journalism professor Randy Boswell to rename the capital’s Prince of Wales Bridge to honour the late Algonquin chief William Commanda has been approved... More

Journalism instructors discuss COVID-19 implications with newsroom leaders

Journalism instructors discuss COVID-19 implications with newsroom leaders

Public health restrictions are being loosened across the country as COVID-19 cases fall and more Canadians are fully vaccinated. But as Carleton journalism instructors heard in a recent briefing with... More

Legendary journalism professor Mary McGuire retires after 31 years

Legendary journalism professor Mary McGuire retires after 31 years

Today marks the end of an era at Carleton’s journalism school as one of our longest-serving professors – Mary McGuire – heads into retirement. Mary has been a full-time member... More