{"id":2808,"date":"2026-05-02T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:03:43","slug":"the-end-started-slowly-then-happened-all-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-end-started-slowly-then-happened-all-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"“The end started slowly then happened all at once.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Sad day’ as Langara pauses journalism program indefinitely<\/a>. It really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Langara has always had very fine, experienced instructors teaching in its Journalism Credential and Diploma programs. From the Vancouver Sun<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournalism schools across the country have seen dropping enrolment and Langara is not alone in that,\u201d [Journalism Department Chair Barry Link] said. \u201cThe changes in the industry are part of it, and then the changes in what students want and what they want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore and more of them will want to be things like YouTube influencers or podcasters, because that\u2019s where they get their information from. It\u2019s entirely online, social media, Tik Tok and so forth. And that\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing. Technology changes, but the industry has never caught up to that, has never figured out how to make money from that and still do journalism.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jen St. Denis interviews Barry Link at length in a Tyee article<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tyee: Can you explain what exactly is happening with the program?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barry Link:<\/strong> The eight-month certificate program was basically pulled about a year ago. The college does what they call a pause, which means basically they put it in mothballs. We still had the diploma, which is a two-year program. But this fall they are pausing intake of new students, which means we won\u2019t be accepting any new students into the diploma program in September. That means we will only have second-year students, and we will teach those out so that they can graduate in the spring of 2027, and then that\u2019s it. And we\u2019re done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s gone. It\u2019s not going to come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you tell me why you say that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrolment in the program itself is down; it\u2019s lower than it was 10 years ago. If this had happened 10 years ago, we could see the college saying… \u201cWhat can we do to fix this? What can we do to turn it around?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, because there\u2019s no money, like, there\u2019s absolutely no money, they\u2019re not willing to do that. They have negative money basically at the moment, and that is the result of the drop in international student enrolment \u2014 which has hammered post-secondary education finances. It\u2019s just slaughtered the budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you explain to me the role that Langara\u2019s journalism program played in the local journalism industry in B.C.?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it\u2019s been fundamental. It\u2019s been around for 60 years, so it\u2019s one of the oldest journalism programs in B.C. It has graduated hundreds of journalists over the years who\u2019ve worked throughout the industry, particularly in newspapers in B.C. And so that pipeline now is gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Sad day’ as Langara pauses journalism program indefinitely. It really is. Langara has always had very fine, experienced instructors teaching in its Journalism Credential and Diploma programs. From the Vancouver Sun: \u201cJournalism schools across the country have seen dropping enrolment … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,43,55],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-for-educators","tag-for-students","tag-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}