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Julian Sher, the creator and webmaster
of JournalismNet.com, Julian
has trained journalists around the world to master
the Internet as a tool for investigative reporting.
In Europe, clients include the BBC, ITN, CNBC,
NBC, the Maastricht European Journalism Centre, and
the national broadcasters in Sweden, Switzerland,
the Netherlands and Finland.
In North America, Julian has trained in the
newsrooms of CNN, CBC, CTV, Readers’ Digest, and the
Montreal Gazette and for the Radio and Television
News Directors Association. (Click here for
a more complete
list of clients)
On
special assignment, Julian has also trained journalists
in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development
Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania,
Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria for the World
Bank. He also consulted for the OECD in Paris and
UNICEF in New York.
Julian writes extensively about
journalism and the web for "Media" magazine
in Canada, as well as for CNN Online, the Globe and
Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and the Commonwealth Broadcasters
Association.
He has been interviewed about the Internet
by Wired.com, CBC, BBC and by other media around the
world. He has been a guest speaker at the schools
of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal
and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
For 10 years, Julian worked as
an investigative TV producer for CBC-TV's leading
documentary show, "the
fifth estate", from 1990 to 2000. Julian
covered scandals, wars and corporate intrigue in South
Africa, Somalia, Holland, France, England, Costa Rica,
Honduras, Mexico and the United States and Canada.
He is a three-time nominee for a Gemini (Canada's
equivalent of the Oscars for TV), and won a Gemini
for Best Documentary in 1997.
Before
becoming a network TV producer, Julian was a TV reporter
and producer in Montreal and a morning radio show
producer and writer. In all, he has 16 years experience
as a TV and radio broadcaster.
Julian
has been active in media and human rights issues.
He is the former president of the Canadian
Association of Journalists and is a current member
of the advisory board of the Canadian
Journalists for Free Expression, which monitors
press freedoms around the world. He is also the author
of two
best-selling investigative books in Canada --
"Until You are Dead" which examines Canada's
most famous murder trial and "White Hoods: The
Ku Klux Klan", a book about racism.
He is a graduate in Honours History from McGill University
in Montreal where he currently makes his home He can
be reached at courses@journalismnet.com.
Click here for more ways to contact
Julian Sher.
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