Lecturer
UQAM
Between 2017 and 2022, I taught the television journalism course at the Media School of the University of Quebec in Montreal. An important project for me because I sincerely believe that we must train and prepare the next generation of journalists in Quebec. The current difficult context of the media industry, disinformation and fake news are major challenges for the new generation. I therefore humbly try to pass on to my students the forty years of experience to, I hope, equip them to be better prepared to become competent journalists.
This compulsory course in the journalism program is a theoretical and practical workshop on the art of news and live reporting for students at the end of their course.
Training in television journalism involves the creation of television news programs which allow students to discover their communicative talents in front of the cameras. They must both read the bulletins, produce live broadcasts and reports.
This training given to graduating students of the journalism program is essential in a job market where versatility – writing, web, radio and television – is fundamental to professional success.
See the newscasts produced in the EDM 4424 course
Find out more about the UQÀM media school
Portrait that the students of the television program at the UQAM Media School made of me…on the piano…
Coaching
ACS
The Association of Science Communicators of Quebec asked me to produce training to help scientists better engage with the media. I therefore gave this theoretical and practical training for several years in numerous institutions including Polytechnique, the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer of the University of Montreal, the Armand-Frappier Institute, the Centre Eau Terre et Environnement from INRS among others.
Here is an example of this training with Sentinelle Nord, the Northern research group at Laval University:
IRSC
The Canadian Institutes of Science asked me to prepare a training project in science journalism for students and general journalists. This project is important since the covid-19 pandemic has largely contributed to the rise of scientific disinformation. This training provides useful tools to better find and popularize information on medical research.
World Federation of Science Journalists
I have given dozens of different training courses at numerous universities in Quebec. But the request from the World Federation of Science Journalists to train African journalists to better produce their reports on the Ebola epidemic was particularly illuminating on the lack of tools for these journalists and the lack of scientific education among the population. African. There is still much work to be done to improve scientific literacy in Africa.
Training on Ebola for African journalists:
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT
I had the chance, during the 2000s, to perfect myself in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), thanks to a Knight Science Journalism fellowship, pursuing training in public health risk management (2006) and neuroscience (2008). These training courses allowed me to deepen these two important areas in my journalistic production.
The Professional Federation of Journalists of Quebec, the FPJQ, subsequently asked me to become a trainer for its members on the issue of risk management in public health and epidemiology. I subsequently gave additional training on television reporting.
To learn more about this MIT program: