Category Archives: Innovation
Visualising carcinogens in the workplace
CBC News has published an interactive database on carcinogens in the workplace. The visualisation is the result of a collaborative project between the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, CBC and CAREX Canada, a research initiative cataloguing Canadians’ exposure to carcinogens while on the ...
Paper on BBC Action Network e-democracy project published
My paper on the BBC Action Network has been published in the eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government. It looks how the BBC tried to encourage civic engagement through its Action Network project, originally known as iCan. In the paper, I argue that the initiative suffered from a “fund ...
Canadian Music Wiki project goes live
I am very pleased to announce the successful launch of the Canadian Music Wiki. The site is the result of a partnership between CBC Radio 3 and the UBC Graduate School of Journalism,which gave recent grad Amanda Ash a unique opportunity to research and develop on wiki over the past eight month ...
Paper presented on innovation at CBC Radio 3
At the 11th International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT Austin, I presented a paper, Wikifying the CBC: Reimagining the remit of public service media (PDF), with one of my graduate students, Amanda Ash. The paper discusses a collaboration between the Graduate School of Journalism ...
