You’re the expert: preparing for a media interview

Kim Kierans will lead an interactive session. This is open to Junior Fellows and recent alumni of Massey College.

Kim Kierans is an Inglis professor (emerita)  at the University of King’s College, Halifax and a Senior Fellow and resident at Massey College.

Her book Journalism for the Public Good: The Michener Awards at 50 was published in May 2024 by Bighorn Books, University of Calgary Press.

She worked for 30 years in journalism as a reporter, news editor, associate producer and presenter at CBC and newspapers. She taught at the University of King’s College for 24 years and served as King’s vice-president (2010-2017) and director of the School of Journalism (2003-2010).

She was a visiting professor in the Communication Department at the Asian Center for Journalism at Ateneo de Manila University for 15 years.

Her audio documentaries have been broadcast on CBC Ideas, The Current and Maritime Magazine. Along with writing for various publications, she co-published Asia Media Innovators II (2010) and co-edited The New Journalist (2010).

She has an honours degree in classics from Dalhousie/King’s, an MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from St. Mary’s University and a DCL (hon) from King’s. Her research interests include community media, concentration of media ownership and the pedagogy of online learning.