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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

October 31, 2022

COMS program welcomes Argentine scholar Ana Bizberge

The School of Journalism and Communication is pleased to welcome Ana Bizberge as a visiting scholar for the Fall 2022 semester. Bizberge, whose expertise is regulation of the media and... More

October 11, 2022

Carleton hosts first-of-its-kind conference on fact checking in journalism Oct. 19-21

In an age of fake news and misinformation, fact-checked journalism has never been more vital. Carleton’s journalism program and The Walrus have organized a special conference Oct. 19-21 at Carleton... More