Stephen Ward, a former Canadian Press (CP) Vancouver bureau chief
with 15 years of journalism experience, has been hired as the first
full-time teaching appointment with the Sing Tao School of Journalism
at the University of British Columbia. His appointment as associate
professor is effective July 1, 1998.
“I feel very fortunate to have found someone who has such an excellent
combination of journalistic and academic experience,” says Donna
Logan, director of the journalism school. “It is rare in Canada,
yet absolutely essential for a professional school of journalism.”
Ward has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo and
extensive experience in journalism in Canada and abroad. He has
taught courses at three universities.
Ward spent the past four months as a research fellow at the Joan
Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, part
of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research
there was on a new concept of objectivity for the journalism of
the future. His research paper, “Objectivity with a Human Face,”
will be published by the Shorenstein Center.
Before becoming Vancouver bureau chief, Ward spent five years as
CP’s sole staff reporter in Europe. He covered the Gulf War and
the Iraqi bombing of Kurds in southern Turkey and northern Iraq
and followed Canadian peacekeepers into the former Yugoslavia, including
Lt.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie’s mission into Bosnia to reopen the Sarajevo
airport. Ward was based in Newfoundland during the period that saw
Clyde Wells oppose the Meech Lake Accord, the cod fishery decline
and the inquiry into the Mount Cashel orphanage.
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