Pleiades Promoter Project
UBC School of Journalism
Journalism Ethics for the
Global Citizen
   


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009
PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES, UBC
Details

Session 1
New media and public responses to disease and pandemics
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Session 2
Accuracy and genomics research
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Session 3
A conversation with Nora Young, host of CBC’s Spark
"The Story as Web: Towards a New Ecology of Information"
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Session 4
Media and sustainability
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Session 5
Where do we go from here? The future of science journalism
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Dinner reception with speaker:
Erika Check Hayden, Senior Reporter, Nature
"Inventing Tomorrow: Experiments in the Future of Science Journalism"
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THANK YOU! ::

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2009 conference. Special thanks to all of those who helped make it great success.

CONFERENCE REPORTING ::

It’s a scary time to be a journalist
By Rebecca Cheung
December 14, 2009

At time when newspapers are shutting down and citizen journalism is taking over, the future of journalism is bleak.   Not to mention the added pressure for young journalists to establish brand identities and effective marketing strategies early in their careers. more arrow

Conference review on J-source.ca:
Science journalism in a connected future
By David Secko
December 4, 2009

Concordia University assistant professor David Secko captured some of the highlights of our recent conference. more arrow 

Vaccine skeptics highly vocal online
By Heather Amos
November 9, 2009

Journalists and public health experts agree that media coverage of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic has been counterproductive in recent months. more  

 
 
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