Concordia's graduate journalism program: 25 years of success

Some of Canada’s best journalists learnt their craft at Concordia’s Department of Journalism. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its diploma program, the department teamed up with Advancement and Alumni Relations to host a reunion that featured familiar faces and old friends.

From left: Concordia President Alan Shepard; Department of Journalism Chair Linda Kay, CBC The National's Peter Mansbridge; Advancement and Alumni Relations Vice-President Marie Claire Morin and Journalism Diploma Program Director Peter Downie.

Journalism alumni, faculty and staff were invited to celebrate the milestone. CBC’s Peter Mansbridge was a special guest to headline the annual Reader’s Digest Lecture.

Department of Journalism co-founders Enn Raudsepp and Lindsay Crysler.

“I’ve always been interested in what goes on around me,” he said. “I love asking questions and challenging assumptions and telling stories and those are the basics of any good journalist.”

Department of Journalism founders Lindsay Crysler and Enn Raudsepp said that when they started the diploma program, the goal was to integrate both the theoretical and the practical aspects of journalism.

“We have people of all ages, of all backgrounds from all over the world,” said Department of Journalism Chair Linda Kay. “It’s an intense bootcamp-like atmosphere because they know they have to give it all for a year.”

Related links:

• View more pictures of this event on flickr
• Department of Journalism
• Graduate Diploma in Journalism
• Reader’s Digest Lecture Series with Peter Mansbridge
• CBC’s The National