University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
| Established | 1997 |
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| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Website | journalism.ubc.ca |
The University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism is a two-year Masters of Journalism program offered on the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. The program is unique in that it requires students to focus on an area of reporting specialization. The school has also developed a reputation in teaching multimedia journalism and was one of the first programs in North America to replace craft streams with an integrated journalism curriculum. The program has 60 students a year, with close to 20 faculty members, adjuncts and staff. Faculty members come from a variety of traditional and new media organizations including CBC, BBC News Online, CBS News 60 Minutes, The Globe & Mail, The Vancouver Sun, and The Tyee.
The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia was established on July 24, 1996 as an academic unit within UBC’s Faculty of Arts. The building in which it is currently housed, the 3-story Sing Tao building, was opened on Aug. 27, 1997, and the school accepted its first class of students in September 1998.
Donna Logan was the founding director in 1998, and the school graduated its first class in 2000.
While the school started as a traditional journalism program meant to focus on western Canadian students interested in studying journalism, the program was founding just as the media landscape was shifting, and the school was well-positioned to hire young faculty members expertise in new media and video journalism. Since its inception, the school has developed expertise in teaching global reporting, environmental reporting and Indigenous reporting, amongst other areas.
The Master of Journalism degree is a professional graduate program running over five terms with a mandatory professional internship during the summer.
The two-term Integrated Journalism (IJ) course is taken by every student during their first year. IJ provides a basic foundation in the grammar and syntax of news writing while introducing students to media across platforms including audio, visual and print. Working in a newsroom setting, students learn reporting basics and the importance of deadlines. Student projects are published on The Thunderbird.ca, the school’s award-winning online news service. First-year students are also required to take Media Law.
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