Message from the Chair

A look out the door and you can quickly see, this is a time of great change – lots of it;

That also makes it a great time to be in journalism since you will be on the ground floor of that change and help inform and shape it over your time being a part of the most vibrant, largest, and engaged schools of journalism in Canada.

Your job is to be curious, eager to explore; be active in many different circles of life; to read, watch, listen and experience; to hustle and to be tenacious, thoughtful of your footprint as an information gatherer and one who tells other people’s stories to the world.

Being a university based journalism program, what sets us apart is that we not only teach and learn the field as it is today, but we build it into what it can be, through questioning, practice and consideration and with the boldness to anticipate and propose change.

Here you will learn the craft and become proficient in skills and techniques but adaptable to explore many of the possibilities journalism has to offer. Here you will be compassionate and resourceful and you can find ways to do everything you dreamed that the life of journalist would involve … and more.

That’s where the fun part comes in. What you might think of as journalism and ‘the job’ may be different from your colleagues or instructors, parents and friends. That’s great because, together, what you bring helps us all explore new things to move forward, together.

That’s what makes being in a university, this university, and studying journalism different and special and why we’re glad you’re here.

Ravindra Mohabeer
Chair, School of Journalism
Toronto Metropolitan University