About
Tim Currie teaches online journalism at King’s. He also teaches research, digital media skills and reporting techniques.
He is co-editor of The New Journalist: Roles, Skills, and Critical Thinking (2010). He has authored social media guidelines for the Canadian Association of Journalists and is a contributor to the Nieman Journalism Lab.
Tim’s research interests include journalism education, journalists’ use of social media and mobile applications of news. He comments frequently in the media on topics such as online comments, publication bans and news organizations’ use of social media.
Tim has a BA in history and political studies from Queen’s University (1988), a BJ from King’s (1992) and an MA in communications and technology from the University of Alberta (2006). He worked as a freelance reporter and editor before returning to King’s in 1994. He helped Stephen Kimber deliver the first Canadian university course in online journalism and has led Kings’ online journalism instruction since 1999.
Tim is on Twitter @tscurrie. He blogs at newsnext.ca.
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Peer-Reviewed Academic Research:
- Currie, T. (2011). Experiments in location-based content: A case study of Postmedia’s use of Foursquare. #ISOJ Journal, 1(2), 29-64.
Academic Conference Papers:
- Currie, T. (2011, Nov. 4). How news organizations are using Foursquare: A Postmedia case study. Presented at the Information and Social Networks Symposium, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Currie, T. (2011, April). Experiments in location-based content: A case study of Postmedia’s use of Foursquare. Paper presented at the International Symposium of Online Journalism, Austin, Texas.
- Currie, T. (2010, June). Online Journalism Education in Canada. [PowerPoint slides]. Paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association conference, Montreal, Quebec.
- Currie, T. (2009, June). Targeting An Online Community: U-News.ca. [PowerPoint slides]. Paper presented at the Canadian Communication Association conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Books
- Benedetti, P., Currie, T., & Kierans, K. (Eds.). (2010). The new journalist: Roles, skills, and critical thinking. Emond Montgomery: Toronto.
Book Chapters
- Currie, T. (2010). Roles and Skills for Cross-Platform Reporting. In P. Benedetti, T. Currie & K. Kierans (Eds.), The new journalist: Roles, skills, and critical thinking. Emond Montgomery: Toronto.
- Currie, T. (2010). Data Visualizations and Interactives. In P. Benedetti, T. Currie & K. Kierans (Eds.), The new journalist: Roles, skills, and critical thinking. Emond Montgomery: Toronto.
Professional Articles
- Currie, T. (2012, Jan. 23). How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became a dominant force in Nova Scotia. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved from http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/01/how-a-tightly-paywalled-social-media-ignoring-anti-copy-paste-gossipy-news-site-became-a-dominant-force-in-nova-scotia/
- Currie, T. (2011, Sept. 1). Chats don’t have to be online: A newspaper finds success with its downtown news cafe. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved from http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/09/chats-dont-have-to-be-online-a-newspaper-finds-success-with-its-downtown-news-cafe/
- Currie, T. (2011, June 29). In Canada and New Zealand, news agencies in flux illustrate the pressures on the co-op model. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved from http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/06/in-canada-and-new-zealand-news-agencies-in-flux-illustrate-the-pressures-on-the-co-op-model/
- Currie, T. (2011, April 14). What works for news orgs on Foursquare? Opinion, reviews, evergreens, but maybe not the news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved from http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/04/what-works-for-news-orgs-on-foursquare-opinion-reviews-evergreens-but-maybe-not-the-news/
- Currie, T. (2009, Nov. 24). New media beast tries unproven business model. J-Source. Retrieved from http://j-source.ca/article/new-media-beast-tries-unproven-business-model
Master’s Thesis:
- Currie, T. (2006, Sept. 12). Online news: A survey of instructional methods. Unpublished master’s project, University of Alberta, Edmonton.