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Teachers
Allan Thompson
Claude Adams
Izabel Barsive
Jill Bennett
Michelle Betz
Roger Bird
Debra Black
Marc Bourgault
Peter Bregg
Andy Clarke
Gil Courtemanche
Gary Dimmock
Lynn Farrell
Charles Gordon
Scott Hannant
Kanina Holmes
John Honderich
Margaret Jjuuko
Melissa Kent
Robert Lacroix
Sue Montgomery
Jennifer Moroz
Jean-Claude Picard
Lee Pitts
Shelley Robinson
Dina Salha
Sylvia Thomson
Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
Huguette Young
JHR Intern
Lauren Vopni
Exchange Students
Kayla Hounsell
Amanda Smith-Millar
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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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Sue
Montgomery
Sue Montgomery, a graduate of Carleton University's
School of Journalism and Communication, has been a journalist
for 20 years. She has worked at the Toronto Star,
Canadian Press, Gemini News Service in London and is
currently a reporter/columnist for the Montreal
Gazette.
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Jennifer Moroz
Jennifer Moroz is a staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she has covered everything from suburban life to regional transportation issues to major national and international stories.
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Jean-Claude Picard
Jean-Claude Picard est professeur agrégé de journalisme à l'Université Laval depuis l996. Il est également directeur du programme d'enseignement du journalisme depuis 2003.
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Lee Pitts
Lee Pitts is a radio and TV reporter with CBC in St. John's, Newfoundland. He's been there since 2004, but originally joined CBC as a summer student in 1999. He also works as a radio and television producer.
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Shelley Robinson
Shelley Robinson studied political science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, eventually running both the student newspaper, The Gazette, and the campus-community radio station, CKDU-FM.
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Dina Salha
Dina Salha who holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University and is writing
her doctoral dissertation there, is no stranger to Mass Comm students, having
taught 11 courses since 1999.
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Sylvia
Thomson
Sylvia Thomson was born and raised in Montreal.
She then went to Duke University (BA), University of
Bordeaux and Carleton University (Master of Journalism).
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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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Exchange Students
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Kayla
Hounsell
As a high school student in Gander, Newfoundland,
Kayla Hounsell participated in a national award-winning
media internship program through which she gained hands-on
experience in broadcast journalism and was told she
could make it a career. She moved to Ottawa in 2003
to attend Carleton University’s School of Journalism.
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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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