May 6, 2017
TORONTO STAR -- Turning experts into journalists, with a ‘big cognitive shift’
BY CATHERINE WALLACE - “You hear people saying, ‘You can’t teach news judgment, it comes after years and years and years,’” says Robert Steiner. “And I disagree. Some people will get it more than others, but you actually can teach news judgment.” What Steiner is doing, as director of the Munk fellowship in global journalism at the University of Toronto, is teaching it not to students but to specialists — people who already have a career or profession or background in a particular area. READ MORE