The J-school where I work has a new director, Prof Mary Lynn Young.

She is a talented and valued colleague at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism with vision and determination, so I am confident she will make a great director.

From the UBC news release:

“Prof. Mary Lynn Young has been appointed Director of the UBC School of Journalism. She succeeds Prof. Stephen Ward, who has taken a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Young received her PhD and MA from the University of Toronto’s Centre of Criminology. She has been a reporter and editor at daily newspapers including The Globe and Mail (where she was a national business columnist from 2003-2006), The Vancouver Sun, The Hamilton Spectator and The Houston Post.

Young joined the School of Journalism in 2000. Her areas of interest include gender and the media, newsroom sociology, media credibility, representations of crime (including a new project on the media coverage of marijuana in Canada), media economics and content analysis. She was an expert witness in 2007 at the Cornwall Public Inquiry on allegations of youth abuse over a 20-year period in Ontario.”