Course description
In this introduction to literary journalism, you’ll study the craft of storytelling along with interviewing, reporting, and the journalist’s ethical stance. Guest speakers, field trips, writing activities, and course readings will help you engage deeply with your environment and develop the skills and sensitivity required for literary reporting.
Course instructor
Hamutal Dotan
Hamutal has been an editor of magazine, newspaper, digital, and book-length journalism for over 15 years. Formerly editor-in-chief of Torontoist, Focus editor at the Globe and Mail, and senior editor of The Walrus, most recently Hamutal was a William Southam Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College, where she explored the history and psychology of reading, and the cognitive biases that can influence our reading of non-fiction in particular.
Hamutal has edited National Magazine Award-winning journalism and National Newspaper Award-winning memoir, and teaches journalism and creative non-fiction at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Once, many moons ago, she was herself an undergraduate at Innis College.