School of Journalism
Biography:
Stephen Trumper has been a part-time instructor at Ryerson since 1995, teaching Magazine Masthead for three years and Magazine Editing for 14. For the Ryerson Review of Journalism he has edited dozens of articles (many of which were nominated for National Magazine Awards) and has helped student-editors craft heads and decks for hundreds more.
Most of Stephen's early working life was spent at Toronto Life, where he was the managing editor for nine award-winning years. In addition, he has been on staff at The Globe and Mail (as a copy editor) and Harrowsmith Country Life magazine (as senior associate editor). He is a former vice-president of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors and a former board member of the National Magazine Awards Foundation. Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and the Ontario Science Centre. He is currently on the board of the Abilities Foundation, which publishes Abilities.
He has freelanced for, among others, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Elm Street and Shift. In 1997, Stephen received a Canada Council grant for research into a proposed book on people with disabilities.
A wheelchair-user who has been on the advisory board of CBC-TV's Disability Network, Stephen also had a five-year stint as an executive editor at what is now Financial Post Business magazine, for which several of the pieces he edited were nominated for National Magazine Awards.
He is also associated with Accessible Media Inc.-AMI, a not-for-profit multimedia organization operating two broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio, and a companion website (AMI.ca). AMI serves more than five million Canadians who are blind or partially sighted, deaf or hard of hearing, mobility or learning disabled, print-restricted or learning English as a second language by making print, broadcast and online media accessible. Its mission is simple: to make all media accessible to all Canadians.
Qualifications:
B.A. (History/English) Trent, B.A.A. (Journalism) Ryerson
Current Courses:
JRN 806 - Advanced Feature Writing
Professional Affiliations:
Canadian Association of Journalists; Radio and Television News Directors Association of Canada; PEN Canada
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