ALLAN THOMPSON is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication who joined the faculty at Carleton in 2003 after spending 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper.

He worked for ten years as a correspondent for The Star on Parliament Hill in Ottawa and also undertook reporting assignments for The Star in such places as Rwanda, Zaire, Sierra Leone and Kazakhstan. He still writes a weekly column for The Star.

His first book, an edited collection called The Media and the Rwanda Genocide, has just been published by Pluto Press, Fountain Publishers and the International Development Research Centre. 

Allan also established the Rwanda Initiative, a media capacity-building project in Rwanda that includes a partnership between Carleton's journalism school and its counterpart in Rwanda. 

A native of Glammis, Ontario, Allan is married and has one child.