I’ve been privileged over many years to have taught journalism, part-time, to thousands of students. They have taught me as much as I perhaps have given to them and many have become friends and colleagues, relationships I greatly appreciate and benefit from.
I currently teach two 4th year courses in the Professional Writing Program at York University. One is a magazine feature course called The Special Issue. We have a wonderful relationship with This Magazine, which has published some of the students’ final assignments. The other course is on journalism ethics, which I believe is an incredibly important subject.
Each spring I teach a seven-week course for Ryerson’s Continuing Education department called Freelancing the Future. It’s really a business course that outlines how to survive and prosper as a freelancer (look for “Wednesdays With Paul” on Facebook, a page created by my students in 2010).
For many years I taught radio production, magazine writing and interviewing to graduate, undergraduate and Continuing Education students at Ryerson University. I also taught a radio documentary course at Carleton University in the early 1980s and radio production at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
