Humber Journalism Students Honoured in New York Awards

Humber College Journalism students won a record-breaking 49 awards at the College Media Advisers Convention and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Awards in New York City in March.

Humber’s student newspaper, the Humber EtCetera and Humber’s local radio show, @humber, each won Apple Awards, along with an additional 47 awards for work in TV, radio, magazine, online, newspaper and video.

The biggest area of awards growth was for online, more than tripling the amount of awards previously won, including a Silver Crown award for best newspaper online site, as well as nine other awards for material posted on thedailyplanet.com.

http://mediastudies.humber.ca.

Sheridan Institute awarded $4.9 million in media research funding

Fanshawe Students use MOJO technology at Olympics

Fanshawe College Broadcasting students Nick Wynja and Ashley Rowe have returned from covering the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Equipped with innovative technology by B.C. based high-tech developer VeriCorder Technology, Wynja and Rowe demonstrated the mobile journalism – or MOJO – revolution using groundbreaking new technology designed exclusively for Apple iPhone.

Watch their Olympic Reports Here:

Senceca College and Genie-nominated animated film

Oscar winning filmmaker, Chris Landreth’s latest film The Spine, made with creative participation from Seneca’s Animation Arts Centre, has been nominated for a Genie Award for Best Animated Short. The film, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, with the creative participation of Autodesk Canada CO and Seneca College’s School of Communication Arts, tells a poignant story of redemption that takes viewers into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction.

http://www.senecac.on.ca/media/news/2010/2010-03-04.html?page=1

Durham College explores cultural vision through Ontario Chinese Artists Association

The School of Media, Art & Design, Your Student Association and TD Canada Trust, recently hosted an art exhibition in the South Wing hallway of the Gordon Willey building to showcase the work of Barb Suen, a Durham College Graphic Design professor, and members of the Ontario Chinese Artists Association (OCAA).

Created to celebrate 40 years of great political relations between China and Canada, the exhibit took place from February 1 to 20, displaying Suen’s work as well as 40 pieces created and donated by 37 artists from the OCAA.

http://www.durhamcollege.ca/EN/featurestories/feature_stories/2010/201002/20100225.php

Centennial College Presents Fast Forward 2010

Fast Forward is a day of  FREE talks, workshops and exhibits at The Centre for Creative Communications. Read about our featured guest speakers, in addtion to a number of career workshops in art + design, journalism, broadcasting, animation, and more.   LEARN. CREATE. INSPIRE.

Featuring: WATERLIFE Director Kevin McMahon, MuchMusic’s Michael Williams, CityTV’s Kris Reyes, Degrassi’s Cassie Steele, CANOE.ca’s David Newland and many others.

http://www.centennialcollege.ca/thecentre/fastforward