Allan Thompson
Program Director
Allan Thompson has been the head of 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 journalism program since 2020. He joined 杏吧原创 in 2003 after 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, where he specialized in covering foreign policy, defence and immigration. It was during his time as a reporter in The Star鈥檚 Ottawa bureau that Thompson began reporting on Romeo Dallaire, documenting Dallaire鈥檚 journey from the time he left his command in Rwanda, through the descent into post-traumatic stress disorder, his re-emergence on the public stage as a champion for war-affected children and during Dallaire鈥檚 key witness testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Thompson published an edited collection called The Media and the Rwanda Genocide and also established and managed a five-year media development project in Rwanda called The Rwanda Initiative. He is also a co-author of the journalism text The Canadian Reporter.聽His most recent publication is the edited collection Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond.听