Allan Thompson
Allan Thompson is an Assistant Professor
at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication. He joined the faculty
at Carleton in 2003 after spending 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper.

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Claude Adams
Claude Adams has worked in all media—television, print, radio and online—in Canada and overseas for nearly 40 years. Recently, he was a Visiting Professor in Broadcast Journalism at the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism.

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Izabel Barsive
Izabel Barsive is a highly-acclaimed producer, director and visual artist with numerous videos to her credit and a well appreciated photographic work.

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Jill Bennett
Jill Bennett has been working as a radio reporter and anchor in Vancouver since 1996 when she graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

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Michelle Betz
Michelle Betz is a journalist and media consultant now based in Accra, Ghana who joins the Rwanda Initiative with additional support from UNESCO. She was in Butare late last year to assist in the launch of Radio Salus at the National University of Rwanda.

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Roger Bird
Roger Bird brings a lifetime of news reporting and editing, magazine editing, and journalism teaching to the Rwanda Initiative. In Carleton University’s journalism program he taught reporting, editing, history of journalism, history of ideas and feature writing.

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Debra Black
Debra Black has been a reporter at the Toronto Star since September, 1988. A graduate of Carleton's School of Journalism, Black has covered everything from breaking news to education to health issues at the newspaper as a general assignment reporter, education reporter and feature writer for the paper's Life section.

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Marc Bourgault
Marc Bourgault was born in 1947 and has lived in and around Montreal all of his life. A PhD in literature from Laval University, Marc has been at Radio-Canada since 1976, with two brief interruptions.

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Peter Bregg
Peter Bregg has been Chief Photographer for 16 years at Maclean's, Canada's weekly news magazine.He began his photojournalism career with Canadian Press in Ottawa in 1967 as copy boy.

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Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke is the Senior Coordinating Producer for Radio and Television News with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in Ottawa. While he's worked in both print and television, his first love is radio.

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Gil Courtemanche
Gil Courtemanche is a well-respected journalist specializing in international and third world politics and is a columnist with the Montreal daily newspaper Le Devoir. His novel, Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali ( A Sunday at the pool in Kigali), spent more than a year on Quebec bestseller lists and was later made into a feature film.

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Gary Dimmock
Gary Dimmock is an investigative reporter with the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, where he has worked for 16 years. He has won several awards for enterprise reporting, including the inaugural National Newspaper Award for Explanatory Work, in 2002.

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Lynn Farrell
Lynn Farrell  is the Photo Editor at The Gazette newspaper in Montreal, Quebec.  Originally from Toronto, Lynn has spent the last 20 years photographing or  assigning and editing photos for four newspapers including The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail and the National Post.

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Charles Gordon

Charles Gordon recently retired after more than 40 years in journalism in Canada. Best known as a humour columnist, Gordon has also been an editorial page editor, managing editor, city editor, feature writer and books editor in a career with the Brandon Sun in Manitoba the Ottawa Citizen.

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Scott Hannant
Scott Hannant is News Director of CTV Ottawa, a position he has held for 5 years. Prior to that, he was Executive Producer of the newsroom.

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Kanina Holmes
Kanina Holmes is an accomplished journalist who has worked in print, radio and television. She joined the faculty at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in 2003 and teaches television and print reporting.

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John Honderich
John Honderich, former publisher and editor of the Toronto Star, began his newspaper career with the Ottawa Citizen (1973-76).  He joined The Toronto Star in 1976 as a reporter and eventually became chief of The Star's Ottawa Bureau and later chief of the Washington Bureau.

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Margaret Jjuuko
Margaret Jjuuko is an experienced Communication Specialist and Media Trainer with 23 years of working experience in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Africa.

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Melissa Kent
Melissa Kent is an award-winning journalist who has worked for CBC Radio covering news and current affairs stories for a number of years.

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Robert Lacroix
Robert Lacroix has been a media producer for 25 years with Carleton University’s Instructional Media Services department. A major part of his job is training third and fourth-year students in camera operation, video editing and producing newscasts and current affairs programs.

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Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
Lucy van Oldenbarneveld is a veteran journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation who is currently the Friday host and field reporter for Ottawa Morning, the capital's number one morning radio show on CBC Radio One 91.5.

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Huguette Young
Huguette Young is a veteran journalist who has worked on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for a francophone news agency and more recently for Time Magazine, CBC, Radio-Canada and Télévision française de l'Ontario.

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Lauren Vopni
Lauren has a B.A. in Political Science and Art History from McGill University and a Photojournalism diploma from the Western Academy of Photography in Victoria, B.C.

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Amanda Smith-Millar
Amanda Smith-Millar is a third-year Carleton journalism student from Winchester, Ont. She was inspired to pursue journalism after watching Terri Hatcher’s gutsy, smart portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the Superman TV series the Adventures of Lois and Clark.

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