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The School of Journalism is pleased to announce that Wab Kinew will deliver the 33rd Annual Minifie Lecture on March 19th 7:30 pm, Ed Aud. The title of Kinew's lecture is "Ideals Once More: How social media, social movements and Indigenous people urge us towards a new ethics of Journalism."

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Photojournalist John Stanmeyer visits J-school

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John Stanmeyer, a National Geographic photographer and founding member of VII Photo Agency, holds court with fourth year students during a visit and Q & A at the School of Journalism, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. Stanmeyer, whose interests include food security, was in Saskatchewan to photograph potash mining and production.

John Stanmeyer has been the recipient of numerous honours including the prestigious Robert Capa award, named Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded numerous World Press, Picture of the Year and NPPA awards and in 2008 received the National Magazine Award for his in-depth essay on the global Malaria epidemic.   

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges visits U of R and School of Journalism

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Chris Hedges talks shop with students during a visit to the School of Journalism before his lecture Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012.

Chris Hedges is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Harvard Divinity scholar, former war correspondent and best selling author covering terrorism, the Iraq war and American politics and society. Wildly popular in some circles, banished from others, Chris Hedges is as relentless in his defence of the indigenous and the sacred as he is in his stance against glitz, banality, indifference, careerism and corporate power. His latest book (Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, 2012; co-author, J. Sacco) delves into four U.S. "sacrifice zones" ravished by economic exploitation, and examines the Occupy Movement.

2012 student docs hit festival screens

WTF are Mormons?, a final year documentary by recent grads Peter Mills, Sarah Ritchie and David Baxter, is an official selection at the 2012 Montreal Student Film Festival while Mush, by Kim Jay, Josee St. Onge and Deborah Shawcross is an official selection at the 2012 Columbia Gorge International Film Festival.  

Two more grads are off on assignments abroad

Grad Kim Jay won the Kay Robbins Assignment Abroad Award to investigate sustainable farming in Zambia. She will produce a documentary. The scholarship is funded by an endowment left by the J-School's first director, Ron Robbins. It supports emerging journalism students and is named to honour his wife Kay.

 
With the support of Journalists for Human Rights, grad Noah Wernikowski is off to Ghana on an assignment abroad this summer. 
 

Student prepares for second internship in... Bangkok!

 
Kelly Malone has been selected for J-School scholarship support to serve a second internship next fall at the Bangkok Post. Kelly is currently working her first internship this summer in broadcast, at News-Talk Radio in Saskatoon. 
 

Global Citizen Award winner debuts new documentary on Burma

 
J-School prof Trish Elliott, winner of the 2012 SCIC Global Citizen of the Year Award, recently released the documentary Breaking Open Burma: An inside look at the work of underground and exiled journalists, produced with Susan Risk. You can view the trailer at http://www.breakingopenburma.com
 

Class of '87 organize their own 25th Anniversary re-union trip to the U of R J-School ... and retired prof flies back to meet them!

 
An intensive program with only 26 accepted per year, the J-School continues to forge strong bonds between grads... but social media has made it easier to sustain those relationships over time.  
 

J-Schoolers earn while they learn

 
This year almost half the J-School's students were placed in a second internship, adding extra summer work experience to their for-credit, mandatory internship. This enabled many to get experience in both print and broadcast, as well as to travel more widely and work in varied newsrooms. This enhanced their portfolios and references and increased their chances of getting job offers from the employers they served on internship. With half a year of frontline experience under their belt on graduation, other employers also know they're twice as ready to hit the ground running. If your shop could use some help or have holidays or a mat leave to cover in 2013, contact J-School internship coordinator Mark Taylor: Mark.Taylor@uregina.ca
 

Over a third of the J-School grad class of 2012 are snapped up by employers--before the end of exams!

 
Even before the end of exams, 10 out of this year's 25 J-School grads already had job offers in their field. From News-Talk Radio to the Moose Jaw Times to the Lethbridge Herald to CBC and Radio-Canada, our grads hit the ground running. Several of these hires are the direct result of 13 week paid internships which place J-School students in newsrooms for a full academic term. 
 

Recent grad makes good with CBC doc assignment to Tunisia

 
 

Both Crow stories submitted to the 2012 Western Magazine Awards made the shortlist for the Sask Gold Award.


Here is the list:

GOLD AWARD BEST ARTICLE - SASKATCHEWAN
Sponsored by Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
The Crow, Alana Bergstrom, A Desperate Measure
The Crow, Kent Morrison, The La Loche Project
Westworld Saskatchewan, D. Grant Black, Prairie Eggs Over Easy
Westworld Saskatchewan, Dyron Jenkins, Sweet Dreams Aren't Made of This
Westworld Saskatchewan, Josh Campbell, The River Kings

The award will be announced June 15, and the winner will receive $1,000.

 

Missed a Minifie?

 
The last four Minifie Lectures are now available on vimeo through the J-School website. These include talks by Terry Milewski, Tony Burman, Anna Maria Tremonti and Chantal Hebert: http://www.arts.uregina.ca/journalism/minifie-lecture.
 
If you prefer to read them the first 30 years of the Minifie Lecture, you can order Thirty years of journalism and democracy: The Minifie lectures, 1980-2010 here: http://www.cprcpress.ca/publications/30.
Watch for an announcement on our 2013 Minifie Lecturer soon...