BA (Queen's), BJ (Vind), MA (Alberta)
Tim Currie has been a journalism educator, researcher and administrator at King’s for more than 25 years.
He was Director of Journalism programs from 2016-22 and became the university’s Vice-President in July 2025.
His teaching has focused on text- and image-based reporting for online platforms. He led the university’s digital news instruction for much of the past two decades, having taught the news reporting workshop, and courses on introductory reporting, audience engagement and professional practice.
He was the primary and secondary author of numerous discussion papers on contemporary ethical practice as a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists Ethics Committee from 2011-2016. Those papers proposed best practices for unpublishing requests, comment moderation, online corrections and use of sponsored content. They also suggested an updated definition of journalism in the context of social media.
Prof. Currie advanced the interests of Canadian journalism schools as an elected board member of J-Schools Canada from 2018-2024. He was the association’s treasurer and manager of institutional memberships. He was also the sole administrator of two $200,000 funds that supported career development opportunities at 19 Canadian journalism schools.
· Currie, T. (2017). Process journalism and responsible communication: Establishing real-time reporting practices that defend against defamation. In L. Taylor & C-M. O’Hagan (Eds.). The unfulfilled promise of press freedom in Canada. University of Toronto Press: Toronto
· Currie, T. (2014). “Handling mistakes: Corrections and Unpublishing”. In L. Zion & D. Craig (eds.), Ethics for digital journalists: Emerging best practices. Routledge: New York.
· Currie, T. (2012). “Social media editors in the newsroom: A survey of roles and functions”. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s annual conference in Chicago.
· Currie, T. (2011). “Experiments in location-based content: A case study of Postmedia’s use of Foursquare”. #ISOJ Journal, 1(2), 29-64.
· Benedetti P., Currie, T., & Kierans, K., Eds. (2010). The new journalist: Roles, skills, and critical thinking. Emond Montgomery: Toronto.
Journalists’ use of social media, journalism education, journalism ethics, journalism corrections, journalism innovation, funding models for journalism, online comments on news websites
