• Duncan McCue, CBC journalist and the Ryerson School of Journalism’s Rogers Visiting Journalist, at CBC’s Toronto studio. Photo courtesy Jasmine Bala.

    Duncan McCue works with Ryerson J-School on curriculum for covering Indigenous issues

    By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre  Reporters working in Canadian newsrooms should receive diversity training just like police officers and health workers do says Duncan McCue, the newly appointed Rogers Visiting Journalist at the Ryerson School of Journalism (RSJ). McCue said the training is necessary because journalists who don’t understand Indigenous cultures can cause…
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    Memo: Toronto Star Executive Editor Paul Woods retiring

    The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on October 19, 2016, from Michael Cooke, editor. Paul Woods has advised me that he will be leaving his post as Executive Editor at the end of the year. This is consistent with the two-year commitment he made when we seduced him out of semi-retirement in…
  • Patti Sonntag awarded the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education to do project on Canadian resource extraction companies with 26 student journalists and partners. Photo courtesy Patti Sonntag.

    Patti Sonntag spearheads Canadian collaborative investigative journalism project

    This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Jane Gerster The first time Patti Sonntag tried to pitch a hands-on investigative class about resource extraction companies to Canadian journalism schools she was met with enthusiastic but noncommittal interest. It was 2014 and while schools were interested in the topic, Sonntag said, the project was…

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    Toronto Star Public Editor: Readers still care about language use

    By Kathy English for the Toronto Star In this age of instant digital news, in which journalism faces revolutionary changes, some things do not change — most notably readers’ expectations of excellence in English language usage. Rarely a day goes by without several Toronto Star readers emailing the public editor’s office to point out spelling,…
  • St. John's, Newfoundland. You won't find the Globe and Mail or the National Post here. Photo courtesy Asmaa Dee/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

    The National Post and The Globe—minus Newfoundland and Labrador

    This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Leila Beaudoin English literature professor Annette Staveley is a well-read woman. She spends the majority of her time engrossed in a publication. But there’s one newspaper that’s never in her home library or office—The Globe and Mail. “We used to pick it up at the gas…

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    CBC Ombudsman: Fairness in Ford Nation

    By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Jacqueline Bell, thought that repeated use of the name of one candidate, Michael Ford, and references to the “Ford dynasty” on the day of a municipal by-election to fill the seat formerly held by Rob Ford, violated the need for balance and fair coverage. She was concerned this…
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    Memo: CBC is back in Turkey

    The following memo was sent to CBC staff on Oct. 14, 2016, from Greg Reaume, Managing Editor, CBC News Coverage. CBC News is back in Turkey.  The temporary bureau we opened in Istanbul nearly two years ago proved so rewarding we are setting up there once again.  And who better to have at the helm than correspondent Nil…
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    Memo: Agreement reached over Toronto Star newsroom culture review

    The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on Oct. 14, 2016, by Alan K. Bower, Executive Director, Labour Relations Toronto Star and Star Media Group, and Steve Gjorkes, Unit Chair Unifor Local 87M. Staff: We are pleased to jointly announce an agreement has been reached and signed between the company and the union to…
  • Media stories that get it wrong can contribute to how others perceive those with autism – and even perpetuate potentially dangerous stereotypes. Photo courtesy Becky Wetherington/CC BY 2.0.

    Five things journalists should keep in mind when writing about autism

    By Laurie Mawlam Too often well-meaning journalists get it wrong when they write about autism.  It’s not so much the content of their stories that misses the mark as the language they use to describe autism itself.  It can be easy to unintentionally offend – or worse, misrepresent -- the autism community you are meant…