The projects on this site represent the collected work of the 29 students in Peter Martyn’s Winter 2012 Multimedia Journalism class at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto.
Each of these group projects was designed to showcase students’ individual and collective work, their ability to work together as part of a real-world team of journalists operating under the pressures of limited time and resources. They researched their topics, created storyboards, curated background material, fulfilled the roles of multimedia newsgatherers and content producers, and demonstrated their knowledge of storytelling and online audience engagement.
Projects run the gamut from an interactive look at one of Toronto’s downtown art hubs, the Distillery District, to the lives of Toronto street musicians, the Politics of Pee (safe washrooms for the LGBT community), the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, which recently arrived in Ontario, to an inside look at the creation of “flash mobs” and an examination of “Manorexia,” a male body-image syndrome.