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Gene Allen had an extensive and varied career as a television news and documentary producer and as a newspaper editor and reporter before joining Ryerson鈥檚 Journalism faculty in 2001.

From 1997 to 2001, he was director of research and a senior producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada television series Canada: A People鈥檚 History. The series was broadcast nationally on CBC in 2000 and 2001 and won a Gemini Award for Best Documentary Series. He also edited both volumes of the best-selling companion book to the series, Vol. I of which was recognized by the Canadian Booksellers Association as Non-fiction Book of the Year for 2000.

During his 10-year career at the CBC, he also worked as a producer and writer on the award-winning television documentary series Dawn of the Eye, assignment desk producer for CBC Radio鈥檚 Morningside, assignment editor for CBC national TV news, and a writer on The National. Between 1979 and 1991 he worked at the The Globe and Mail, holding positions as foreign editor, Queen鈥檚 Park reporter, assistant city editor and copy editor, among others.

Gene is currently the Velma Rogers Research Chair in the School of Journalism. He is the author of Making National News: A History of Canadian Press (2013) and co-editor of Communicating in Canada鈥檚 Past: Essays in Media History (2009). He is currently working on a biography of Kent Cooper, general manager and executive director of the Associated Press news agency from 1925 to 1951. Gene was the founding director (2007-2010) of the School鈥檚 Master of Journalism program; he is also a member of Ryerson鈥檚 Faculty of Graduate Studies and a faculty member in the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, where he has supervised several Master鈥檚 and PhD projects and theses. He was co-organizer of the International Communication Association鈥檚 preconference on  鈥淐ommunications and the State: Towards a New International History鈥� (Communication History Division) in 2015, chief organizer of the international conference 鈥淭oward 2020: New Directions in Journalism Education,鈥� held at 成人大片 in 2014, and of the first 鈥淐onference on Media History in Canada,鈥� in 2006. From 2011 to 2015 he was an International Scholar working with colleagues at the Department of Journalism, Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia, under the auspices of the Academic Fellowship Program, Open Society Foundations. In the summer of 2005, he was Guest Professor of Canadian Studies at the Free University in Berlin, Germany.