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Southam lecturer to teach “experiential journalism”

Local journalist and social activist Jody Paterson—UVic’s second Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Non-Fiction—will share her award-winning interviewing techniques with students this fall. Her WRIT 314 class, “Changing Perspectives: Writing from the Inside,” explores techniques and issues in “experiential journalism:” non-fiction writing that engages as closely as possible with the experiences of those at the centre of a story or issue without sacrificing balance or facts. The annual lectureship is named after Harvey Southam, a UVic alumnus and journalist who was an heir to his family’s publishing empire when he died in 1991.