News

Our AMS Reporter will cover the Alma Mater Society, UBC’s student union.

Over the next year, the AMS Reporter can expect to file stories about the AMS’s six elected executives, their goals, and their handling of the society’s $35 million budget. AMS Reporters will also cover the AMS/GSS Health & Dental Plan, AMS businesses, the AMS Nest and the student union’s advocacy to the university and other levels of government. They will also deliver live coverage of biweekly AMS Council meetings.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting one or two stories per week, working on firm deadlines
• Attending meetings of AMS Council biweekly and participating in live coverage
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Community Reporter will cover everything the UBC public is criticizing or celebrating.

Over the next year, the Community Reporter can expect to file stories within our most open-ended beat. Historically, the focus of Community Reporters has been protests and student movements more generally. However, anything from academic advising to student start-ups and personal achievements can and will often fall within the scope of this role. This will include event reporting — mainly for demonstrations and public safety issues — profiles of persons of interest, and investigative reporting on matters of public concern, among others.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting one to two stories per week, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Immigration Reporter will cover federal and provincial immigration policy.

Over the next year, the Immigration Reporter can expect to file stories about international student policy, changes to paths to permanent residency and citizenship. This will often take the form of explainers and enterprise stories, and less frequently, breaking news stories.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting three to four stories per month, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Law Reporter will cover legal proceedings at any level related to UBC and/or UBC community members.

Over the next year, the Law Reporter can expect to file stories about the dozens of proceedings in provincial and federal courts, as well as proceedings of quasi-judicial tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal, Labour Relations Board, and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner with a relationship to UBC. This will often take the form of explainers and enterprise stories, and less frequently, breaking news stories.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting three to four stories per month, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Housing Reporter will cover housing policy at all levels of government, as well as housing developments on UBC’s Point Grey Campus.

Over the next year, the Housing Reporter can expect to file stories about everything from City Council zoning decisions to programs run by the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs to the federal government’s project investments or even UBC’s student housing projects. This will often take the form of explainers and enterprise stories, and less frequently, breaking news stories.

Responsibilities

• Reporting three to four stories per month, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Transportation Reporter will cover anything that concerns modes of transportation to UBC’s Point Gray campus, ranging from buses and the proposed SkyTrain to UBC to BC Ferries and Vancouver International Airport.

Over the next year, the Transportation Reporter can expect to file stories about how transportation is organized by local, regional, provincial and federal governments — including the allocation of funding largely coming from the latter two. This will often take the form of explainers and enterprise stories, and less frequently, breaking news stories.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting three to four stories per month, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Climate Reporter will cover a wide range of stories about the climate crisis, with an emphasis on local environmental and climate justice issues in our city and region.

Over the next year, the Climate Reporter can expect to file stories about UBC researchers who are advancing our understanding of the climate crisis, impacts of the crisis on campus, wildfire season, and actions at different levels of government that are aiming to reduce the effects of climate change. This will often take the form of explainers and/or investigative pieces on specific projects, issues and policy decisions, as well as breaking news announcements more sporadically.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting three to four stories per month, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat

Our Technology Reporter will cover the evolving technology landscape and its repercussions at UBC.

Over the next year, the Technology Reporter can expect to file stories about start-ups coming from the UBC community; changes related to software and hardware at the university (Canvas, Workday); issues of data management, data privacy and/or data sovereignty; the implementation of new technologies and the abandonment of old ones; consumer technology, internet use regulations and social movements that oppose to AI data centers; tech billionaires, and bellicose uses of technology. This is a comprehensive but not final list; so if it's related to our evolving technology landscape and relevant to students, it may belong in the technology beat. This will often take the form of explainers and enterprise stories, and less frequently, breaking news stories.

No prior experience in journalism is required. Ongoing training and training materials will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Reporting one to two stories per week, working on firm deadlines
• Practicing thoughtful journalism to the highest standards of ethics
• Developing relationships with sources to inform reporting
• Attending weekly meetings
• Being professional and responsive to editors, peers, and sources
• Staying expertly informed on matters concerning your beat