Carleton marks 75th J-School anniversary in a time of crisis

Like everyone else, learning how to navigate and lead the university’s journalism program was ‘not part of [the] game plan’ for new director Allan Thompson.

Allan Thompson, director of Carleton School of Journalism, says things have come a long way for the program, now run out of Richcraft Hall, right. Photograph courtesy of Allan Thompson, Wikimedia Commons photograph

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 21, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—These are not easy times for journalists. Newspaper readership is down, most print media have not yet figured out how to monetize their social media presence, and declining advertising revenues in the midst of a struggling pandemic economy have forced cutbacks in print and electr...

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