Although I’ve retired from full time teaching, I continue to deliver short courses and workshops by request, based on the university courses I taught at the University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada. My course outlines typically include classroom learning, hands-on projects and community collaborations. Students are actively engaged in journalism that matters.
Student Projects
Investigative Journalism
Students contributed to campus-newsroom research collaborations, earning hands-on experience working side by side with students across Canada and Canada’s top investigative journalists. Below are local student projects that formed a part of the larger national investigations. I also taught how to present multimedia investigative projects on the web.
Broken Promises: An investigation into drinking water on First Nations in Saskatchewan
Virtually Exposed: An investigation into privacy loss in the digital world
Hooked: An investigation into Saskatchewan’s opioid addiction
Crude Power: An investigation into oil, money and influence in Saskatchewan
Consultant Watch: The high price of advice
Magazine and Literary Journalism Workshop
Students spent a full semester honing a feature-length magazine article, for freelancing or publication in The Crow. They learned how to apply storytelling craft to nonfiction works.
Research Techniques
Willow Bunch Wikipedia Project
Intro to Print/Interviewing/Research (cross-taught)
Course Outlines
Magazine Writing and Literary Journalism Workshop
Alternative and Community-Based Journalism
Classroom materials
Access to Information – Overview and tips