Jennifer Ackerman, a student in the U of R’s School of Journalism, has been awarded the 2017 EU-Canada Young Journalist Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes outstanding journalistic talent among young Canadians. The award is co-sponsored by the European Union Delegation to Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ). “I am very honoured. It’s an incredible opportunity and to have been given the chance to experience it is so exciting,” says Ackerman. “I’ve worked really hard over the past three years and so it’s nice to see it paying off. I literally jumped up and down when I got the call, while I was on the call actually. Couldn’t keep the smile off my face.”