Radio and Media Production
Program Overview
In Humber’s Radio and Media Production graduate certificate program, students develop the skills to make entertaining and engaging broadcasts and podcasts. Imagine combining the experience of your degree or diploma with new skills in audio storytelling and broadcasting. Graduates of our program are working in all aspects of radio and podcast production across Canada. Many are instrumental in some of Canada's most popular podcasts, and some have been recognized at the 2019 Canadian Podcasting Awards.
Students get hands-on experience in:
- radio and audio production studio techniques
- on-air announcing
- podcast hosting
- newscast performance and sports reporting
- hosting live music and public affairs programs
- writing stories, shows, commercials and scripts
- radio programming
- promotions
- interviewing techniques and more
They produce exciting audio and visual content including video and podcasts in Humber’s leading-edge production studios.
Students learn about the latest trends and developments in broadcasting and podcasting, and prepare for careers in media production including on-air, on-camera, online and social media. They create original digital audio content and experience the thrill of having their work distributed by broadcast on the radio, podcast streaming or other means including social media.
Students take intensive classes and workshops with expert faculty where they apply their new skills to studio and broadcast operations. By second semester, students can perform live in our streaming or broadcast radio stations as a music host, newscaster or announcer. Hands-on training in on-air performance is provided through Humber’s student radio station, 96.9FM, which is also streamed online and through various listening apps. Students will focus on creative studio production techniques and on-air operations and on virtual online production techniques.
Upon successful completion of the program, a graduate will:
Tell informative and entertaining stories using audio and other related digital media suitable for dissemination via various media.
Perform and broadcast on-air in a variety of scripted and non-scripted ways to engage target listeners on multiple platforms.
Make innovative audio media applying historical traditions and emerging societal imperatives for a variety of audiences.
Comply with regulatory obligations and ethical practices in the radio business.
Produce audio and other digital content using appropriate software and hardware.
Collaborate professionally to strategize innovative radio programming and promotion that is engaging and achieves identified business targets.
Work Placement
Students will participate in a mandatory work placement which takes place in the last semester of study. After completing a work placement preparation course, students will be supported in marketing themselves to prospective employers in order to find a work placement that aligns with their personal career goals.
The Humber Advantage
Watch the “Stories in Sound” Info Session to learn more about the Radio and Media Production graduate program.
Student Work: Audio drama, Podcast, Radio
Feature: The Story of Studio 212; original production by Clare Bonnyman
Student Work: Radio Documentary/Non-fiction audio "Lunness Road" by Nadine Lowes and Charles Renshaw – received an award from the Broadcast Educators Association of Canada
Student work: Audio Drama, Podcast, Radio
Feature: Kings - Short original drama by Stephen Boyles
Student Work: A Video "Love Letter to Radio" – Do Not Go Into Radio by Danielle d'Entremont (for creative content course, which includes video skills)
Student collaboration, testimonial to their experience in the post-grad Radio program from spring 2017; unsolicited, done on their own initiative
Paul Cross' (Program Coordinator) on-air career spans four decades, as an award-winning newscaster, reporter, music host, talk show host and documentary maker.
Cross Talk comes from desktop studio of Radio professor Paul Cross. Part commentary, part media analysis, Cross Talk is a series that drops as issues in Radio and mass media coverage of current events arise.
Expert Faculty
Paul Cross
Paul Cross is a podcaster, broadcaster, documentary maker and professor. His podcast catalogue includes Cross Talk, a series on media history, commentary and analysis with an emphasis on audio media and the importance of listening, and The Erasure of Race: The Killing of Howard Joel Munroe, a collaboration released beginning in May 2021. He has presented feature workshops on specialized aspects of podcasting at Podcamp Toronto in 2019 and 2020.
Paul's achievements in radio news and documentaries have been recognized by the New York Festivals and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. His broadcast career includes newscasting on radio stations including CFRB Newstalk 1010, 1050 CHUM, CHUM FM and AM 640. National newscasts he wrote and anchored have been aired on CHUM group and Broadcast News/Canadian Press stations throughout Canada. His research is focused on local radio in times of local crisis.
Paul's work with students includes news and sports reporting, interviewing, podcasting, documentaries, music program production and audio drama and transmedia storytelling.
Kate Evans
Kate Evans is the senior producer and showrunner of CBC's Podcast Playlist and The CBC Podcast Showcase. She is also a podcast columnist with CBC Radio, sharing podcast recommendations and trends on-air across the country. Kate came to the CBC from the world of commercial radio (Indie88, CHUM). Her work was awarded a New York Festivals' Bronze Medal in 2017.
Kym Geddes
Kym Geddes is a certified professional leadership coach and team facilitator.
Her areas of expertise include leadership development, team building, new leader integration, change management, executive presence, and impact and influence communication.
Kym has directed the largest award-winning news/talk radio newsroom in Canada, leading a team in all aspects of the department, including news gathering and story production efforts, and long-range content vision. She also anchored newscasts at the top-rated major market radio stations in Canada.
She was the first woman news director at Canada’s most influential news/talk radio station and was instrumental in leading a cultural transformation focused on diversity, inclusion, equality, and teamwork. She led a major digital transformation initiative and developed and implemented strategies to embrace new technologies and meet the needs of customers and the evolving media landscape.
Kym is a natural relationship builder who has cultivated an extensive professional network with newsmakers, public relations agencies, media professionals, and the business community.
Throughout her career she has been the recipient of numerous awards including multiple Radio Television Digital News Association Canada (RTDNA) awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award USA for Best National Newscast, Best Regional Newscast, and Breaking News. In addition, she received the Distinguished Service Award RTDNA Canada in recognition of outstanding contribution in the continued success of the association and exemplary distinguished service rendered for the benefit and advancement of electronic and digital journalism.
Kym received her certified profession coach designation through the International Coach Federation’s accredited Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and she is an Energy Leadership Index master practitioner.
She has completed numerous leadership programs including Franklin Covey: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results; Franklin Covey: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; and the University of Toronto’s EQ leadership certification.
Errol Nazareth
Errol Nazareth is a music journalist and the host of two shows on CBC Radio: Frequencies, which airs across Canada every Tuesday on CBC Music, and Big City Small World, which airs across the GTA every Saturday on CBC Radio One.
He's been playing professionally with words for over 20 years and has written for The Toronto Sun and the alternative weeklies NOW Magazine and Eye Weekly.
Errol teaches in Humber's radio programs, as well as two Media Writing courses and a Music Journalism course at Centennial College. He has also taught journalism at Centennial and at Ryerson University.
He’s judged three butter tart festivals in Ontario over the last few years and counts Public Enemy's Chuck D as a close friend.
Dean Sinclair
Radio enthusiast forever.
Student talent audio whisperer.
Radio station whisperer.
Work horse -- not a show horse.
Love amazing stories.
Love the gig!
Your Career
Radio and podcasting are thriving fields around the world. With our program behind you, you’ll have what it takes to succeed in the radio and podcasting industries. Our graduates work as music and talk show hosts, podcast producers, voice-over artists and announcers, creative writers and producers, news and sports personalities and reporters, audio and content producers, program managers, and industry executives.
Recent grads have launched their new careers in podcasting at enterprises including E-One Entertainment, Canada Land, independent productions, and in radio broadcasting at CBC Radio, Bell Media radio stations, 680 News, MyFM, Corus Radio, Zoomer Radio and other radio stations across Canada.
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