Writer • Editor • Educator
Over the past year, I’ve been working with a team of Digital Media and Journalism students on a special project. It’s called Ask Our Alumni, and its goal is to introduce students to one of Laurier’s most valuable resources—our more than 100,000 alumni. The idea came from my time as a magazine writer and editor,…
Something I often hear from my students is that living and studying in Brantford is nothing like they expected–essentially, it’s better. But many of them admit to having misgivings about the city before they got here. As many of them come from the Greater Toronto Area, or other major metropolitan centres, they worry about what…
It’s always a nice surprise to be reading through the newspaper and come across a piece written by a former student. In this case, I was catching up with The Globe and Mail and discovered that today’s Facts & Arguments essay is a piece written for my JN408: The Freelance Journalist course by Eric Thompson….
There’s no better feeling as a journalism instructor than to watch your students get published, particularly when it’s an assignment for one of your classes. So, it was especially gratifying to read the Facts & Arguments essay in today’s Globe and Mail, as it was written by Mary-Katherine Boss, a student in my JN408: The…
It’s always a great feeling to see our journalism students succeed in getting their work published. Here’s a terrific piece by Leisha Senko on Rabble.ca that examines the popular notion that public sector workers are overpaid.