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Media Centre Information
As part of the university’s COVID-19 response, the Queen’s University TV studio is now closed for operational reasons.
We encourage all faculty and other researchers to continue to share their expertise through the media and are recommending interviews via Skype, Facetime, or over the phone as alternatives.
Please contact Julie Brown, Media Relations Officer, at 613-533-2877 or julie.brown@queensu.ca with any questions or concerns.
News and Media Services provides a wide range of services for journalists. Members of the media who require assistance can contact our media relations staff Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Experts Available:
Our expert database contains hundreds of Queen's faculty members who are available to comment on a wide range of topics and you can see who's talking about the latest news in our Available Experts section.
Attention Broadcasters:
Queen’s has facilities to provide broadcast quality audio and video feeds. For television interviews, we can provide a live, real-time double-ender from Kingston with HD-SDI. Please call for details.
Media Relations Contact
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advisories
April 8
News Release - The answer is in the stars: Researchers discover the North Star “Polaris” is host to a magnetic field
March 31
News Release - Queen's makes a contribution of $750,000 over five years to support City services
February 22
The Conversation is an independent news and analysis online publication that delivers expertise from the academic and research community directly to the public. Canada has joined as the 6th national affiliate of this global network, which launched in Australia in 2011. Queen’s University is a founding member of The Conversation Canada .
Quick Stats (as of Fall 2020):
113,000-plus academics from institutions worldwide are contributing authors to The Conversation
The Conversation garners 42M reads per month through their websites and via Creative Commons licensing
Content is repurposed by more than 22,000 media outlets around the world, including The Washington Post, Maclean’s, Le Monde, The Guardian, and Time Magazine
To date, 160 Queen’s researchers have contributed 272 articles, generating more than 4.4M reads globally
Queen’s faculty and researchers, including graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, who would like to promote their research through The Conversation can simply register as an author and pitch a story idea . When an idea is accepted, researchers work with a Conversation Canada editor. Stories are typically 800 – 1000 words. Researchers have oversight over content, headlines, and imagery before publication. For more info, see: