Matthew Pearson is an assistant professor at the Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication. As a journalist, he has worked for CBC Radio, the Times-Colonist newspaper in Victoria, B.C., the Interior News (Smithers, B.C.) and the Ottawa Citizen, where his beats included education, provincial affairs and city hall. As a Michener-Deacon Fellow for Journalism Education, he developed a new teaching module for journalism schools to help prepare students for reporting on traumatic incidents and the people affected by them. He has presented this innovative work on trauma-informed journalism at conferences, journalism schools and in newsrooms across Canada, and was recognized for these efforts in November 2018 with an award from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies.

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