Why nurses of the future need to embrace high-tech
November 21, 2017The Conversation with Kylie Gionet, a Munk journalism fellow. Picture someone who works in tech. They might fit a stereotype: heavy-rimmed glasses, hoodie, T-shirt branded with a startup's logo, male. You probably don’t imagine a nurse. Yet integrated electronic health records, wearables, health-monitoring apps, artificial intelligence, 3D printers and telemedicine are just some of the technologies...
In the digital age, leaders need to think like journalists
November 17, 2016If your work puts you in the midst of thorny public discussions, or if you're in the business of constantly feeding new ideas into the marketplace, your rules of communications are changing fast. "Spin", the standard practice of relentlessly turning everything into a platform for one simple message, has turned...
Postmedia Presents Alia Dharssi with the 2016 Michelle Lang Fellowship in Journalism
September 21, 2015Postmedia is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the 2016 Michelle Lang Fellowship in Journalism, Alia Dharssi. Read this story at Postmedia
Pitching coach: A program at the University of Toronto wants to turn subject experts into freelancers
September 18, 2015“Atul Gawande is a model of a guy who is active in his field, but in his journalism he’s actually a reporter,” Robert Steiner said. “He’s not just opining and writing op-ed pieces.” It’s the hope of creating more Gawandes that brought a diverse group of professionals — several doctors, lawyers, an...
U of T is rethinking how journalists get trained
July 1, 2015When the remote threat of Ebola spreading in the United States became an all-consuming media spectacle last fall, CNN’s Anderson Cooper began regularly drawing on the commentary of a young Dallas Morning Newsreporter named Seema Yasmin, who also happens to be a physician and a part-time professor of epidemiology at the...
FGJ is featured in “Seven worldwide journalism fellowship to apply for in 2015”
December 29, 2014Completing fellowship applications can be time-consuming. To avoid having to rush through the process, start preparing for these opportunities ahead of time. Read this story at the International Journalists' Network
Seema Yasmin describes how cases of Ebola are being covered locally on CNN
October 19, 2014Dr. Seema Yasmin, a CDC disease detective turned medical writer for the Dallas Morning News, describes how cases of Ebola are being covered locally. Read this story at CNN
Seema Yasmin referenced in Columbia Journalism review
October 6, 2014The most effective Ebola media coverage thus far has been due in part to the steady hands of experienced—and highly credible—federal medical leaders as well as health and science specialty beat reporters on news teams at major print, radio, and television outlets. But with hundreds of inquiries daily about potential...
Fellowship in Global Journalism is the first program in the world that specifically trains professionals and academics to be reporters
August 15, 2014Before entering the Munk School of Global Affairs Fellowship in Global Journalism program in 2013, Anna Nicolaou, who has a degree in economics, had worked for several years in what she calls “classic business-school jobs:” finance and consulting. Today, she’s a full-time journalist at the Financial Times in New York,...
Dr. Seema Yasmin Joins The Dallas Morning News and UT – Dallas
June 2, 2014Dr. Seema Yasmin, a Cambridge-trained epidemiologist, has been appointed as a University of Texas at Dallas professor in practice, as well as a staff writer specializing in public health for The Dallas Morning News. Dr. Yasmin will translate important public health issues for in-depth articles aimed toward general audiences. Read...