Kim Kierans

Kim Kierans is Vice President of the University of King's College. Prior to her appointment in July 2010, she was Professor and the Director of the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada. She teaches journalism foundations, research methods, broadcast writing and reporting and radio documentary. Her research areas include community media and concentration of media ownership.

Kim trains internationally and is a faculty member in the Konrad Adenauer Asian Centre for Journalism MA journalism program, Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines where she teaches courses such as Advanced Reporting, Writing for Broadcast, Radio: A Tool for Democratic Discourse and supervises MA student projects. 

Kim joined the School of Journalism in 1997 after more than 20 years at CBC, mostly in radio where she was news reporter, editor, producer and reader. Kim still produces radio documentaries. 

Kim holds a BA (Hons) from King’s/Dalhousie Universities and a MA from Saint Mary’s University.