The UBC School of Journalism can now give students international reporting experience, thanks to a gift from Vancouver venture philanthropist Alison Lawton and the Mindset Foundation . The new International Reporting course is the first of its kinds in Canada. Students in the course have already made news with their discovery of sensitive US security data contained in used hard drives sold in open-air markets in Ghana. Their documentary on this story aired on the PBS television show FRONTLINE/World.
“The reason the students discovered this security breach is that they took the time to go see for themselves what’s going on, without pre-conceived ideas of the story, and they did some amazing enterprise reporting,” says Peter Klein, Associate Professor, UBC School of Journalism.
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