Bruce Gillespie

Bruce Gillespie is the author of "News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory" (Oxford University Press), which is used in university and college classrooms across Canada. He also edited three collections of personal essays about the family in the 21st century, including "Nobody’s Father: Life Without Kids" and "Somebody’s Child: Stories About Adoption," both with Lynne Van Luven, and "A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships," which was a finalist in the LGBT Anthology category of the 27th annual Lambda Literary Awards and was the silver medal winner in the LGBT Non-Fiction Category at the 2015 Independent Book Publisher Awards (IPPYs).

Bruce is an associate professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he creates and teaches courses about journalism and user experience design. His research focuses on literary journalism, journalism ethics, journalism education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). His work has been published in a range of journals and books, including "Literary Journalism Studies," "Teaching & Learning Inquiry" and "The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics."