Over at PBS Mediashift, I have looked at how to get ready for the start of j-school this week. During the summer, here at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, we made a couple of significant changes.  We cut back on the number of required textbooks, and instead added a good quality digital audio recorder, the Zoom H2, as a requirement for students. We also discussed how to teach students

Some big changes are under way at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia where I am on faculty. The director of the school, Stephen J.A. Ward, is leaving for the U.S. to be the first James E. Burgess Chair and Professor in Journalism Ethics, and director of a new Center for Journalism Ethics, at the the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The announcement from the Dean of

Is it worth doing a master’s degree in journalism? Apparently, it is worth it, at least financially: As Mindy McAdams notes in a post on the job outlook for journalism graduates: New U.S. graduates with a bachelor’s degree in journalism or mass communication had a median annual salary of $30,000, according to a survey of spring 2006 graduates. New graduates with a master’s degree in journalism or mass communication had

Here is the video of my keynote, Reimagining Science Journalism, at Future Directions in Science Journalism Conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in November, hosted by the UBC School of Journalism. The keynote is in two chunks: Part I: Part

It’s been a busy week at the UBC School of Journalism, which has been taking time away from writing here. So I wanted to highlight a couple of the things we have been doing in a shameless bit of self-promotion. Firstly, my first year students put together their first online publication, TheThunderbird.ca. The stories focus on different aspects of life in Vancouver. As a sidenote, we used WordPress as the