Toronto Star: Turning experts into journalists, with a ‘big cognitive shift’
October 31, 2017
“You hear people saying, ‘You can’t teach news judgment, it comes after years and years and years,’” says Robert Steiner. “And I disagree.”
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Campbell MacDiarmid, LLB, (Class of 15), freelance correspondent, Northern Iraq
October 30, 2017
Campbell, an international lawyer, now covers Northern Iraq for Foreign Policy Magazine and other major media in Europe, Australia and Canada.
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Lauren Heuser, JD, (Class of 2016), deputy comments editor, National Post
October 30, 2017
Lauren was a practicing lawyer before entering this program. Upon graduating, she won the prestigious Chawkers Fellowship to intern at The Walrus. The National Post then hired her as its deputy comments editor.
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Rachel Browne, MSc (Class of 2014), senior reporter at VICE
October 30, 2017
Rachel came with background as a human rights researcher. She’s now a senior reporter for VICE, hosting their daily news show in Canada while covering drugs, terrorism, and rights.
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Seema Yasmin, MD, (Class of 2014), reports on Ebola for CNN and Dallas Morning News
October 19, 2017
Seema, a physician, went to work at The Dallas Morning News after graduating – where she won an Emmy Award and became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Fellowship in Global Journalism
October 19, 2017
We recruit subject-matter specialists from around the world, teach them to work as multimedia journalists, and mentor them as they actually find, report and file stories on their own specialties for 19 news organizations in the US, Canada and the UK. No other journalism program works this way.
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