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Why nurses of the future need to embrace high-tech
The 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...
A Program That Turns Doctors into Muckrakers
For years, the growing traffic in Canadian high school girls — picked up in Toronto’s suburbs and pushed into the sex trade — was a secret story. Then, last winter, a journalist joined police investigating the traffickers and started speaking with the middle class teenagers who were their victims. On January...
Turning experts into journalists, with a ‘big cognitive shift’
“You hear people saying, ‘You can’t teach news judgment, it comes after years and years and years,’” says Robert Steiner. “And I disagree. Some people will get it more than others, but you actually can teach news judgment.” Read rest of the article here
In the digital age, leaders need to think like journalists
If 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
Postmedia 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
“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
When 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...
Five Good Ideas about how non-profits can benefit from the media revolution
For years, news media were the gatekeepers to the public agenda. Anyone hoping to shape the debate on a given issue had to pitch stories to journalists, submit occasional op-eds, and hope for impact. But the current media revolution is turning the tables: Audiences now demand deeper coverage of complex...
FGJ is featured in “Seven worldwide journalism fellowship to apply for in 2015”
Completing 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
Dr. 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