Year / 2016
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Wentegate 2016: A round-up
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor [<a href=”//storify.com/jsource/wentegate-2016-a-round-up” target=”_blank”>View the story “Wentegate 2016: a round-up” on Storify</a>]
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![Israr Kasana interviews Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousufzai for his TV show in 2015. Photo courtesy Israr Kasana.]()
Save Us from Depression: Immigrant Journalist
By Israr Kasana for New Canadian Media I was confident I was not being naïve or a ninnyhammer when I decided to relocate as a family to North America yet again, this time…
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CBC Ombudsman: Tweets in Stories: No big deal
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Lawrence Wilson, thought reproducing the graphic image of a tweet from a politician was like providing free political advertising. He thought it made it…
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Brunswick News ombudswoman: Communicating with consideration: writing about mental health
A headline last month that referred to this winter’s weather as “schizophrenic” received an appropriately chilly response from many readers. By Patricia Graham for the Brunswick News A headline last month that…
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![We spoke to people at Discourse Media, Hakai Magazine and The Sheet about the challenges and rewards of being entrepreneurial in Canada. Graphic by J-Source.]()
Journalism startups carve out niches for themselves in Canada
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor A frequent lament among Canadian journalists is that we don’t have the same vibrant media culture as our American neighbours. There is no Canadian ProPublica, Knight Foundation,…
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![A new report from the global press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), describes the tenure of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “dark age” for journalism in Canada. Photo courtesy Alex Guibord/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0.]()
Canada drops 10 spots on 2016 world press freedom index after “dark age for journalism”
By Duncan Pike A new report from the global press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), describes the tenure of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a “dark age” for journalism in Canada,…
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![CBC’s Olivia Stefanovich reported for three days from Attawapiskat amid an unfolding suicide crisis. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
A reporter’s dispatches from Attawapiskat
By Donald Teuma-Castelletti When CBC multimedia journalist Olivia Stefanovich stepped off the plane in Attawapiskat, Ont., on Monday, April 11, she had no idea what to expect. She had reported about the…
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Media on the Move: Apr. 7 to Apr. 20
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism for Mar. 24 to Apr. 6. Remember to notify us of any journalism job news on Twitter and with the hashtag #cdnmediamoves. [<a…
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![Steve Ladurantaye joins the CBC as managing editor of digital news on May 9. Photo courtesy Jesse Yardley.]()
Why Steve Ladurantaye is heading to the CBC
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor It’s fairly unusual for J-Source to be tipped off about the existence of a newsroom memo by the person it concerns. Of course, most people aren’t Twitter’s…
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How Kelly Geraldine Malone told the story of Canada’s fastest-growing prison population
By Kendall P. Latimer On Feb.2, Kelly Geraldine Malone’s 4,000-word article “Why Indigenous Women Are Canada’s Fastest Growing Prison Population” was published on Vice, sparking a national dialogue about incarceration rates of…
