Maxine Ruvinsky

Maxine Ruvinsky is the chair of the School of Journalism at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. She has been at Thompson Rivers U since 1999, after two decades in Canadian print journalism (the last seven of those at the Canadian Press in Montreal, where she was born and raised). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from McGill University (1995) and wrote her doctoral dissertation on the underground press of the 1960s. Her current research interests focus broadly on print journalism, especially issues, investigative, and computer-assisted reporting, and on issues of media democratization. She is the author of Investigative Reporting in Canada and, Practical Grammar: A Canadian Writer’s Resource.