Posted in Curriculum, Grads, Writing on Nov 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Currently a communications consultant at Redbrick Communications, Lisa Timoshenko is the winner of this year’s Gary Schlee Scholarship. The Centennial College Corporate Communications & Public Relations graduate completed an internship with Redbrick this fall. Lisa has a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.
The Gary Schlee Scholarship goes to a CCPR student [...]
Posted in Curriculum, Grads, Writing on Nov 18th, 2010 Comments Off
Salza Khakoo, who is wrapping up a communications internship at Women’s College Hospital, is this year’s winner of the Gary Schlee Scholarship. Salza’s passion for writing isn’t a new interest. In addition to nearly completing her Centennial certificate in Corporate Communications and Public Relations, she is a Journalism graduate of Ryerson University. Congratulations, Salza!
Previous scholarship [...]
Posted in Curriculum, Grads, Writing on Nov 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
Congratulations to Jessica Wolfraim, winner of the second Gary Schlee Scholarship awarded to the top writer in Centennial College’s Corporate Communications & Public Relations program.
Jessica works for Morneau Sobeco, the human resources consultancy where she did her internship. Two other program graduates — Andrea Nasello and Jacqui Fabro — are also communications consultants at Morneau [...]
Posted in Writing on Aug 17th, 2008 6 Comments »
In nearly three decades teaching writing courses and pouring over thousands of student stories, I’ve been subjected to plenty of grammatical and style missteps. Some of them reared their heads more often than others. Here’s a look at 10 prevalent violations:
1. Its vs. It’s. I doubt you’re particularly surprised by this one. It has plagued [...]
One of the nice things about teaching folks who go on to make part of their living through their writing is seeing their bylines in unexpected places. So, it was a pleasant surprise last week to stumble across a graduate’s name attached to a story in the feisty entertainment tabloid, The Georgia Strait, in Vancouver [...]
Posted in Media Relations, Writing on Apr 3rd, 2008 12 Comments »
Every semester when it’s time to look at writing effective news releases, I relaunch my search for good examples. It’s not an easy task. Well-written releases seem to be a rarity, even though the World Wide Web gives me access to thousands of them.
Why is that? The chasm between the content of most releases and [...]
Posted in PR education, Social Media, Writing on Jan 28th, 2008 8 Comments »
Just as I find myself slowing down on the posting-frequency front (I plead guilty to distractions: teaching a new course, setting up internships, interviewing applicants … work), it’s great to see our students revving up in this space.
As part of their Online PR course, Centennial students are required to set up a blog. For some [...]
Posted in Writing on Jul 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
It was a headline designed to grab attention: Content is not King, an article by Alice Marshall on Bulldog Reporter. But in the author’s view, ‘King’ really means ‘economic supremacy’.
“It was said that those who created compelling content would be the winners in the Internet economy … Yet the people who [...]
Posted in Publications, Writing on May 7th, 2007 3 Comments »
 Florida’s Poynter Institute is in the process of releasing Eyetrack07, its fourth study in 17 years that plots actual eye movement when reading text in print or online. It’s a nifty methodolgy that involves two cameras strapped to headgear; find out more about it by watching the video on Eyetrack’s website.
What’s surprising about the study [...]