Please join me in congratulating my journalism students on the first edition of this academic year of our online publication, TheThunderbird.ca. My colleagues and myself at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism have been working with our grad students on stories from their beats in Vancouver. It was their first major assignment of the semester. This week was crunch time, with Thursday being an intense day of final edits and

A couple of projects that I am involved in are up for BC New Media PopVox awards. The awards are part of  Vancouver Digital Week, designed to celebrate the digital media industry in British Columbia. The hyperlocal news website produced by UBC School of Journalism students, TheThunderbird.ca, is nominated in the Best Student Project award. We are also nominated in the Best Digital Learning Initiative (Instructional Design) category for a

I wanted to share our experiences at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism in creating a student journalism website on a tight budget. As most journalism educators will know, there are often few resources or the technical support to develop multimedia websites. TheThunderbird.ca showcases the work of the students on the core Multiplatform Journalism course that I lead at the J-school. The site is run on an installation of WordPress