Remember young Jeff? He's faculty member now

Do you remember Jeff Sallot, the young Kent State University student who was a member of the actual staff that won the BJ Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the shootings at the university?

Jeff in 2007 accepted a position on the faculty of the Journalism and Communiction at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, after a long reporting career at the Globe and Mail and globeandmail.com

Sallot has been the Globe’s bureau chief in Moscow, Ottawa and Edmonton, the lead political correspondent for the Globe’s website during recent federal elections, and has reported from every corner of Canada, and from more than 30 foreign countries.

A graduate of the Kent State University journalism school, he shared the Pulitzer Prize with colleagues for his eyewitness coverage of the shooting of four Kent State students by the Ohio National Guard during an anti-war demonstration.

His coverage of Royal Canadian Mounted Police security service scandals in Quebec for the Globe resulted in the publication of his book on police corruption.

As the Moscow bureau chief from 1988 to 1991, he covered the disintegration of the Soviet empire and the end of the Cold War.

Sallot was the Globe’s diplomatic and security correspondent, based in Ottawa, from 1992 until he joined the faculty. He’s covered violent conflicts in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Russia, Armenia and Lithuania. He was a National Newspaper Award finalist for political reporting in 2004.

He’s been awarded fellowships with the Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarmament in Ottawa and the Asia Pacific Foundation in Japan and China.

He’s been a guest commentator for the BBC, CBC Radio and TV, CTV and other broadcast networks.

Carleton has nearly 900 undergraduate and graduate students majoring in its journalism and mass communication programs. In 1977, the School of Journalism at Carleton University formally launched an undergraduate program in the academic study of mass communication, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. A Master of Arts program was added in 1991, and in September 1997, the school introduced its Ph.D program. In order to reflect the dual streams of study, the name of the school was changed in 1992 to the School of Journalism and Communication.

You can send email to Jeff at jeff.sallot@gmail.com