Sportsnet gifts $250K to KPU’s future journalists

SURREY, BC – Sportsnet has donated $250,000 to the journalism program at Vancouver’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), the largest gift in the history of the school’s Journalism and Communication Studies Department.The first $100,000 of the gift will create six annual scholarships and awards to assist students interested in sports journalism, and provide them with opportunities to explore digital and multimedia techniques over the next five years.Among the annual awards is a $5,000 scholarship that will send a student to cover a major North American sporting event, while another $5,000 award will allow a student to travel the continent, researching a...