Great conversation on the WHAT HAPPENED NEXT podcast tomorrow. Find it at all the podcast places.

nathanwhitlock.podbean.com

Many thanks to Rohan Maitzen, @mangham, Radha Vatsal, and Andrew Lycett for speaking with us, to actor Jamie Thomas King for bringing Collins’s words to life, and to Matthew Lazin-Ryder 🇨🇦!

It’s Wilkie Collins’s 200th birthday. Make yourself a pot of tea and settle in to listen to this CBC Radio's Ideas episode presented by the wonderful Kamal Al-Solaylee. It’s about how Collins used fiction to explore the mysteries of a changing world.

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Start the year with #UBC journalism prof Kamal Al-Solaylee on mind of Victorian author Wilkie Collins, whose work explores murder, madness and marriage. Listen on CBC Ideas.

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Thanks so much Leona O'Neill and Andersonstown News for hosting me this morning. I enjoyed my conversation with this outstanding group of MJ students.

Peter Mansbridge is also supporting the next generation of journalists with endowed awards at U of King's College and Carleton J-School.

Renowned journalist Peter Mansbridge is donating $100,000 to support UBC Journalism students.

“The aim is to encourage the best in quality, emerging journalistic talent,” says Peter Mansbridge

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Congratulations #UBC j-prof Kamal Al-Solaylee on being named a #BelfastHome Ambassador 2023

I took a writing course with Peter my first year at the UBC Journalism program. I'll never forget his stories of interviewing prime ministers and politicians. All of us so eager to get his stamp of approval. May he RIP. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Saddened to hear of the passing of journalist and author Peter C. Newman, and thankful for his support in the early days of UBC Journalism.

The reading room in his name at the school offers a place for study and reflection for #UBC students.

UPDATE: UBC Okanagan is under evacuation order. Please leave campus immediately. If you are on campus and do not have access to transportation, please make your way to H Lot.

Everyone else, please leave the area immediately in a calm and orderly manner.

Join us in welcoming award-winning international journalist Andrea Crossan to the UBC Journalism faculty.

#cdnmedia #UBC

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#UBC students: Mary Ann Saunders & I are teaching a new course in Jan 2024. About how marginalized populations (e.g., trans folk) have been & are treated by, conceptualized through dominant research paradigms. And about insurgent practices and resistance. jwam.ubc.ca/news/jwam-laun…

'So home, I think, is really where you have a memory that makes you a fuller human' ~ Brian De Los Santos
Heavy, beautiful story that'll resonate with those of us who are considering returning to where we came from.
FYI Kamal Al-Solaylee
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The GRC is honoured to receive this year’s Jack Webster Fdn Bill Good Award, which honours an individual or organization that makes a significant contribution to public service journalism in B.C. Read more here. 👇jackwebster.com/bill-good/

Journalists! Come and work with me and the fine team at The Canadian Press' The Canadian Press News Vancouver office. Applications close July 21. apply.workable.com/the-canadian-p…

My piece with Mary Lynn Young on C-18, Google and Meta:
'At stake is the nature of the country’s communications ecosystem, affecting how Canadians get news and information that matters to them' via The Conversation Canada

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Learn from 645 journalists surveyed on their experiences dealing with the stifling effects of reputational attacks. Find the report here: bit.ly/3HmyFDA

A journalist from India moved to the UK after receiving threats against his family. An Argentinian journalist faces trumped-up legal cases that coincide with the publication of her stories. bit.ly/3HmyFDA

So amazing to see today's Google doodle of Nunavik writer Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk - a beautiful illustration by Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona!

Tune in to CBC Radio's Ideas on June 27 and 28 for a special two-part feature about Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk's life and work. CBC Radio