It’s not often that I’m asked to speak about sports journalism, so I enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Gregory Strong, of The Canadian Press, about the ethical implications of remote sports reporting. You can read the story here. For obvious reasons, this kind of reporting became the norm during…
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Pauline Dakin wins Edna Staebler Award
I’m pleased to welcome Pauline Dakin, author of Run, Hide Repeat and winner of this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, to Laurier’s Brantford campus next week. On Friday, Nov. 9, from 11:30 am to 1 pm, I’ll be hosting a public conversation with Dakin about her memoir in…
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Ask Our Alumni
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…
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My new textbook: News Writing and Reporting
The timing couldn’t have been better. I came home from my last class of the fall semester to find a box full of the first editions of my new textbook, News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory, published by Oxford University Press. There’s nothing like the feeling…
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Meet author Sonja Larsen at Laurier Brantford
Mark your calendars! Please join me in welcoming author Sonja Larsen, winner of this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, to Brantford on Friday, Nov. 10. I’ll be hosting a live question-and-answer session with Larsen from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Reid Lounge in the Carnegie Building…