Writer • Editor • Educator
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 of seeing your book in…
In 2012, I began a small research project that examined how journalists at national newspapers wrote about the challenges they faced in getting information out of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. By that point, it was clear that Harper and his cabinet had little time for reporters — they granted few interviews (far fewer than most…
When I was invited to become the editor-in-chief of J-Source almost three years ago, it was to help shepherd the site through a period I’ve come to think of as its late adolescence and early adulthood. After all, the site was about to leave its place of birth, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, and strike out…
As announced last week, J-Source is now seeking its next editor-in-chief, who will take over for me when my three-year term is up this spring. I can’t quite believe that it’s been three-ish years since I took over from Janice Neil. We’ve accomplished a lot in that time, including launching a new site, increasing the…
I had a great time at the NASH conference in Toronto last week (which I have to point out was co-organized by a graduate of Laurier’s Digital Media and Journalism program, Allison Leonard). I met some inspiring student journalists from across the country, as well as some longtime industry colleagues who I’d previously only known…