VIU Media Highlights: March 1-15, 2021

A bi-weekly roundup of VIU students and employees in the news.

NEWS STORIES

Top Performing article for the last two weeks:

• CTV News: BC Invests $2 Million in Three Vancouver Island Food Hubs. Features Deep Bay Marine Field Station’s new Seafood Innovation Centre. Based off a BC Government News funding announcement release. Reach: 23.2 million.
  • Also picked up by the Business Examiner, CFAX 1070

Other stories:

• Business in Vancouver: Women in Leadership Podcast – featuring VIU Chancellor Dr. Judith Sayers.
• Times Colonist: Design Revealed for Correctional Centre at Brannen Lake in Nanaimo (VIU mentioned as an educational partner).
• Comox Valley Record: Strathcona Wilderness Institute AGM upcoming, presenters include Dr. Jasmine Janes, a VIU Biology Professor, and Genevieve van der Voort, a VIU biology student.
• Nanaimo News Bulletin: VIU student actors go online for 25th-annual ‘Rocky Horror Picture show’.
• Sportsnet: How Young, Talented Team Canada is Prepping for Women’s Baseball World Cup (features Alli Shroeder, who joined the VIU men’s baseball team recently).
• Times Colonist: Design Revealed for Correctional Centre at Brannen Lake in Nanaimo (VIU mentioned as an educational partner).
• CBC Radio: Growing Interest in Psychedelic Treatments for Mental Illness, but Expert Warns More Robust Research Needed (featuring VIU Nursing Professor Dr. Shannon Dames).
• VIU News Release: An Important Update on Our Fall 2021 Semester. Picked up by My Coast Now, Nanaimo Bulletin,Times Colonist.
• VIU News Release: VIU Alum Makes Impact Through Endowment Awards. Picked up by CTV, Times Colonist, First Nations Drum, CFAX 1070, Nation Talk, University Affairs and Education News Canada. 

TOP-PERFORMING BROADCAST STORY 

• A CBC Radio story about the VIU Satyr Players staging The Rocky Horror Picture Show virtually reached 86,000 people.

VIU STUDENT PULSE

• Wednesday, March 10 Edition: 59% open rate, 3.1% click-through rate.    
  • Most-clicked link: Fall Semester Update

SOCIAL MEDIA  

• Top Tweet: Our Tweet about funding opportunities for women to find satisfying careers as skilled tradespeoplereached 2,093 people.

• Top Facebook post: Our post sharing the news that VIU is planning for a safe return to on-campus instruction reached more than 11,000 people, including 80 shares.

• Top Instagram post: Our post sharing the news that VIU is planning for a safe return to on-campus instruction reached more than 7,600 people.