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![A panel from Marc Ellison's graphic novel "Safe House," drawn by Daniel Lafrance. Image courtesy Marc Ellison.]()
Turning news into a graphic novel
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Marc Ellison was standing near a village in Tanzania’s Mara Hills, working on a story about a safe house for girls escaping from female genital mutilation, when…
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Journalism jobs: April 13
[<a href=”//storify.com/jsource/journalism-jobs-april-13″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Journalism jobs: April 13” on Storify</a>]
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CBC Ombudsman: Using hyperlinks: Journalists beware, it may be online convention but it can be seen as endorsement
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Mark Wright, thought CBC in New Brunswick was providing free advertising to one of its regular columnists. The author of World of Work broadcast…
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CBC Ombudsman: West Bank Bias
By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, John Gilmore, thought that a news story about violence in the West Bank was biased because it did not present the Palestinian perspective. He…
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![Canadians have the right to access government information, but not all of it. Photo courtesy Jeremy Board.]()
Anti-terror law investigation yields blacked-out documents
By Matt Sutton A 2015 Access to Information (ATI) request for records related to Canada’s controversial anti-terror law, known as Bill C-51, returned a mass of blacked-out documents. Such redactions are not…
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![Eternity Martis on writing about Toronto’s gun crime issue and its race problem. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Inside the gun
By Eternity Martis On August 4, 2016, two innocent people—Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26, and Duvel Hibbert, 23— lost their lives at Muzik nightclub in Toronto when gunfire erupted. Instantly, people speculated that it…
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Chronicle Herald pulls article widely criticized for targeting refugees
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Late on Friday, Apr. 8, a story was published on a Halifax daily newspaper’s website that left readers shocked and disappointed. The story, “Parents worried over school…
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![Josh O’Kane interviews Joel Plaskett for his new book Nowhere With You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit. Photo courtesy Fred Lum.]()
Josh O’Kane on trading breaking business news for book writing
By Matthew Burley Josh O’Kane is a small business writer for the Globe and Mail. In his five years with the Globe, O’Kane has been writing about business, growth strategies, commercial property…
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![Erin Sylvester's feature explores the work that Indigenous journalists are doing and how newsrooms in Canada can do a better job of including Indigenous voices. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
How Indigenous journalists are changing the narrative
By Erin Sylvester I’m not a good flier. I get motion sick and nervous, and that’s when boarding a nice, steady jet. But to get to the remote, fly-in community of Peawanuck,…
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Has media coverage of LGBT issues changed?
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor [<a href=”//storify.com/jsource/has-media-coverage-of-lgbt-issues-changed” target=”_blank”>View the story “Has media coverage of LGBT issues changed?” on Storify</a>] H.G. Watson can be reached at hgwatson@j-source.ca or on Twitter.
