Here’s the Canadian media coverage you read on J-Source in 2018. 10. Ottawa union bargaining results may reverberate across Postmedia Newspaper guilds across two provinces co-ordinated on labour actions for Postmedia employees. The Ottawa Newspaper Guild contract, which had been discussed for two years, would cut benefits and sick leave. The union ultimately voted in Postmedia’s…
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. It was an overwhelmingly humid summer day in Hong Kong when Adrian Ma, professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism, found himself sitting at a plastic table, crammed in next to his students, receiving a slew of free dishes from an elderly woman cooking at a dai…
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism. Want your job move featured? Tweet it to us or use the hashtag #cdnmediamoves. Here are all the media moves in November and December: No other journalist at @CBCVancouver deserves this more than you! Congratulations, my friend. Keep bringing the stories forward. https://t.co/VhiRlYGZgh…
Allison Garber was diagnosed in her early 20s, with obsessive-compulsive disorder and general anxiety disorder. Garber was a university-educated, middle-class woman working a prestigious internship in Toronto. On the inside, though, she felt broken and lost. “I was terrified, I was panicked,” she says. “I didn’t have anyone else to talk to besides my family.…
Fellowships Are you the next #AtkinsonFellow in Public Policy? February 11, 2019 is the pitch deadline: https://t.co/6fLqWn3JZo #cdnmedia #cdnpoli #journalism pic.twitter.com/xfD5MmI4wk — Atkinson Foundation (@AtkinsonCF) December 10, 2018 https://twitter.com/sharon_nadeem/status/1072211120839118848 Internships CBC News Internships – Spring Summer 2019 CBC Radio and Audio Internships – Spring Summer 2019 British Columbia A rare opportunity. Canada's only employee-owned TV…
I regularly advocate for journalists to tell stories they see as newsworthy in the manner they see fit, because a key element of the journalistic skill set is the ability to determine news value. Making principled decisions about what is or isn’t news is a vital public service, and news value should be assessed by…
The importance of press freedom can never be understated. For Canadian journalists, horrific headlines from across the globe of missing, murdered, or imprisoned reporters are sobering reminders of the privilege that we hold. Because our Constitution protects freedom of the press as a fundamental right, journalists are able to do their jobs without fear of…
Chatham Daily News announced it would publish a print edition of its paper one less day a week, along with 10 other Postmedia newspapers, on Nov. 6. Based in the southwestern Ontario municipality of Chatham-Kent, the paper serves a mostly rural municipality, where many residents are still on dial-up. “I’m trying to think back to…
Over the last three years, I’ve had some version of this conversation with countless young Canadian journalists. “I’m so anxious right now.” “My work laid off 15 per cent of the staff and I’m really scared I’m next.” “I’m pretty sure I’m not good enough to be here.” The journalists I have had these conversations…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. When many of my former colleagues at the Guelph Mercury were laid off in 2009, I got in touch to see whether they were going to start their own news website. This has become increasingly common in the United…