BA (San Francisco State University); MBA (Queen's)
Kelly Toughill is associate professor and director of the School of Journalism. She teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Professor Toughill came to King’s after a long and distinguished newspaper career in Canada and the United States. She is the recipient of a National Newspaper Award for feature writing and a National Newspaper Award nomination for enterprise reporting. She was deputy executive editor of The Toronto Star prior to joining King’s in 2006.
Professor Toughill is a past director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and a current director of the Gordon Sinclair Foundation. She has taught in Russia and Rwanda. She is a frequent judge of national journalism awards, including the Canadian Association of Journalism Awards and the National Magazine Awards.
Publications
Kelly has published more than 3,000 newspaper and magazine articles in her career. Her journalism has been cited as a primary source in more than four dozen scholarly articles and books.
She is a contributing editor to J-Source.ca and publishes widely on the area of the changing nature of business models for journalism, including case studies published by the Columbia University Case Consortium (“AllNovaScotia.com: Success of Anomaly?”) and the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at City University of New York (“The Sacramento Press Case Study”).
She has also contributed chapters to the following books:
- The New Journalist: Roles, Skills, and Critical Thinking. Edited by Paul Benedetti, Timothy Currie, and Kim Kierans. Toronto: Edmond Montgomery Publications, 2010.
- The Canadian Reporter: News Writing and Reporting, 3rd edition. Edited by Catherine McKercher, Allan Thompson, and Carman Cumming. Toronto: Nelson College:, 2010.
- Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future. Edited by Lesley Choyce. Lawrencetown, N.S.: Pottersfield Press: Lawrencetown, 2009.
- Page 1: The Best of the National Newspaper Awards. Edited by Nicholas Russell and Kathy English. Toronto: Canadian Newspaper Association, 1999.
Interests: Professor Toughill is interested in the evolution of the journalism industry and how new business models shape editorial content. She also specializes in numeracy for journalists, and regularly offers professional development workshops on the topic across Canada.
