Foundation News
2000 - 2001 Media Fellow: Gail Hulnick
The Chumir Foundation For Ethics in Leadership takes pleasure in announcing the appointment of Gail Hulnick as its first Media Fellow. The three-month Media Fellowship, for which Ms. Hulnick successfully competed, will commence in October or November, 2000.
Ms. Hulnick's study is entitled Defining the Line between Public and Private Life in Canada. Her project is an examination of one of the fundamental issues in media ethics: how, when and where to draw the line between public and private information and events; who has (and should or should not have) the authority to establish the boundaries; and why this line is crucial to the preservation of democracy. The project will also explore the media people use to transmit their codes of ethics: training programs, ethics courses, formal and informal press room socialization.
Ms. Hulnick holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario and an M.B.A. from the University of Alberta. Her background includes 23 years of experience as a journalist, two years with CFRN TV, 18 years with CBC Radio, and most recently, three years as an independent writer and consultant. Her academic work in graduate school included research and study of the press, the media, and freedom of information in a variety of time periods and countries. Throughout her career, the issue of media ethics has been one of her main interests and concerns. Ms. Hulnick expects to produce a radio documentary and an article during the fellowship period.
You can download, in .pdf format, Ms. Hulnick's examination of the subject of her fellowship here:
Defining the Line Between the Public's Right to Know and the Individual's Right to Privacy
Print
Email