Faculty News

• Asper Fellow embraces challenge of guiding future journalists

  Western News, November 26 - From bookworm to foreign editor: Globe and Mail's Angela Murphy takes on Western's Asper Fellowship in Media, beginning January 1, 2026.

• Western Alumni Magazine, Fall 2025 - From Western U to PlantU

  Carleigh Bodrug (MTP'14) arrived at Western as an aspiring TV news reporter but ended up amassing an audience of millions, chopping and championing vegetables.

• Cancer research to comms: MMJC grad aims for impact

  Western News, October 24 - Garth Finch, new Master of Media in Journalism & Communication graduate, fell in love with turning complicated topics into meaningful stories.

• New postdoc Maria Laura Flores Barba joins the Surviving Memory team

  "Serendipity." That's how Mexican art historian Dr. Maria Laura Flores Barba describes first hearing about the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador research project.