Year / 2016
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What the Gateway going digital means for campus media
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Come May, the only way you will be able to read The Gateway is by visiting its website or picking up its new monthly paper. The University…
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Grammar guide: misplaced modifiers
Kids make nutritious snacks. Snappy headline? Case of cannibalism? Or, a misplaced modifier? A modifier is an adverb, adjective or phrase that, ideally, clarifies or adds detail to your sentence. But, put…
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CBC Ombudsman: Did it cross a threshold of good practice when CBC reporters went into the home of the San Bernardino shooters?
By Esther Enkin, for the CBC The complainant, Nicholas Doyle, said he was disgusted by the lack of journalistic integrity when reporters went into the home of the perpetrators of the mass…
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![Toronto's Old City Hall court, where the Ghomeshi trial is taking place this week. Photo courtesy Taxiarchos228/Wikipedia creative commons.]()
No access to bikini photo at Ghomeshi trial
By Diana Mehta for The Canadian Press The judge hearing the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial refused Thursday to release a bikini photo of a woman who testified against the disgraced broadcaster, saying courts…
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Canada’s vital ethnic media
By Priya Ramanujam for New Canadian Media At a time when national and local mainstream media seem to be downsizing and shutting down daily, where does Canada’s ethnic media fit in? And how will…
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Students could be key in Halifax journalists’ strike
By Errol Salamon for CWA Canada Journalism students and recent graduates are well placed to support Chronicle Herald newsroom workers in Halifax, who have been on strike since Jan. 23. They can collaborate with…
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Why Quebec—and Canada—needs more black voices in media
By John Delva Blacks make up Montreal’s largest visible minority. According to the 2011 census, 147,100 live in the city. Why, then, are there so few in our media? As far back…
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Advice for writing about trans people and stories
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor After Caitlyn Jenner came out, many news articles continued to refer to her by her previous name. “Referring to Caitlyn Jenner as her previous name is incredibly…
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Postmedia’s promises prove practically worthless
By Marc Edge And so the Great Canadian Newspaper Roll-up has begun. This was predictable once the Competition Bureau rubber-stamped Postmedia Network’s $316-million takeover of Sun Media last year. As a result,…
