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September 10, 2020

MJ student’s personal story about racially-motivated attack sparks national news coverage

By Jena Lynde-Smith Cindy Tran had no idea what was in store when she wrote a blog post about a racially-motivated attack on her grandmother. Tran, a first year... More

September 10, 2020

Sarah Smith awarded Canadian Studies Network Prize for Best Article

Communication and media studies faculty member Dr. Sarah Smith and co-author Dr. Carla Taunton (NSCAD University) were awarded the Canadian Studies Network/Réseau d’études canadiennes (CSN-RÉC) Prize for Best Article Published... More

September 8, 2020

McArthur receives Insight Development Grant to fund Augmented Reality project

Media Production and Design professor Vicky McArthur recently received a $61,360 SSHRC Insight Development Grant to develop augmented reality (AR) applications to support Japanese language education. AR is an... More

August 31, 2020

Journalism student wins Padinharkkara Scholarship

By Jena Lynde-Smith Including more diverse voices and perspectives in mainstream journalism is vital. This is the stance that helped win third-year journalism student, Sami Islam, the Padinharkkara Scholarship for... More

August 18, 2020

Boswell publishes essay series marking Ottawa Citizen’s 175th

Journalism professor Randy Boswell has published a six-part series of essays in the Ottawa Citizen marking the newspaper’s 175th anniversary this year. Each part of the series explored a different... More

August 13, 2020

Seasoned journalists and a communications specialist join this year’s team of journalism contract instructors

Veteran journalists from the Toronto Star, Maclean’s, CBC, Radio-Canada and the Ottawa Citizen as well as a communications strategist with more than two decades experience have joined the journalism program’s... More

August 11, 2020

Reuters/Oxford fellow Zoë Todd, BJ ’15, publishes research on rise of ‘pop-up’ bureaus

J-School alum Zoë Todd (BJ ’15) — a former CBC Edmonton journalist now working at the award-winning U.S. investigative program FRONTLINE PBS — has published a first-person research paper on... More

July 28, 2020

Journalism students should seize this chance to learn crucial skills needed to innovate during the...

Journalism students should seize this chance to learn crucial skills needed to innovate during the pandemic, newsroom managers say

The work of resilient reporters adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed some of our journalistic conventions forever, a trio of top newsroom managers said during an online discussion... More

July 22, 2020

School of Journalism and Communication survey finds Canadians Anxious about Future Course of COVID-19

July 22, 2020

Inaugural Journalist-in-Residence to Lead the Charge on ‘They Were Loved’ Partnership

July 20, 2020

Journalism alumna essay about being a journalist of colour wins Dalton Camp award

July 20, 2020

Boswell pens essays, edits collection on genealogy boom

Journalism professor Randy Boswell edited and contributed two articles to a newly published collection of essays on the exploding interest in genealogy in Canada and beyond. Published by the Montreal-based... More