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School of Journalism

Ann Rauhala

Title:

Associate professor

Address

RCC177

Telephone:

416-979-5000 x6403

Email Address:

arauhala@ryerson.ca

Biography:

Ann Rauhala will be teaching Covering the City in the MJ program this fall and Copy Editing as well as Health and Science Journalism in the winter term.

A Ryerson graduate herself, Ann spent 16 years at The Globe and Mail, where she worked as a copy editor, assignment editor, beat reporter, foreign editor and featured columnist.

From 1994 to 1997 she was a television reporter, making documentaries, mostly on health and social policy, for CBC television's The National Magazine. She has also written editorials, business stories, book reviews, magazine articles and radio commentaries.

Ms. Rauhala won an award from the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women for her beat reporting. The Globe's foreign desk received numerous National Newspaper Awards and honorable mentions during Ms. Rauhala's five years as foreign editor. But she is just as pleased that a column she wrote extolling the pleasures of reading has been reprinted in a high-school English textbook.

Until 1999 she was senior editor of CounterSpin, on CBC Newsworld. In 2000, she worked as an editor at The Toronto Star. She has trained professional journalists in a variety of settings, including online.

Ms Rauhala was originator and editor of The Lucky Ones, a collection of memoirs by families adopting from China, published by ECW Press in Toronto. The Lucky Ones was named a Best Book of 2008 by Adoptive Families magazine.

This fall, Ms Rauhala is the recipient of the FCAD Dean's Award for Teaching.