4 days ago
CBC Ombudsperson: CBC coverage of the Epoch Times
When CBC News reported on the way the Epoch Times was covering issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, it inspired dozens of complaints. Reader David Tencer wrote that CBC had done a “smear job” on the newspaper, and his complaint is the subject of my latest review.
4 days ago
Submissions are open for the 2021 Dalton Camp Award
Essays about media and democracy can be entered until Dec.1
5 days ago
What I learned about disability journalism when I became the story
The RRJ’s Julia Simioni examines how inspiration porn still manages to dominate the beat in Canada
6 days ago
Meet the high school journalists who kept publishing in a pandemic
Ontario students on making sure the campus presses kept rolling, bringing youth voices to community journalism and striking out on their own
1 month ago
Will nonprofit journalism rules now on the books help news organizations in Canada?
Long-awaited updates now offer path for news media to issue tax receipts to donors. But the road to philanthropic journalism is paved with Canada Revenue Agency rules, uncertainty about Canadians’ willingness to give
1 month ago
The ethics of reporting on incels
Six key strategies for effective and responsible journalism
1 month ago
Memo: Shree Paradkar named ‘first internal ombud’ at the Toronto Star
‘This role will provide a safe place for BIPOC journalists and all journalists to express editorial-related discrimination and bias concerns if they don’t feel comfortable bringing it to their manager directly.’
1 month ago
Missing voices
Highly skilled reporters from across the world exiled in Canada rarely find employment in the country’s newsrooms. The RRJ’s Neha Chollangi on the rich journalistic experience that media organizations lose when they don’t carve out space for newcomers’ expertise
1 month ago
Applications for the 2020 Forum Freelance Fund Bursaries have re-opened
The annual bursary competition, presented by the Canadian Journalism Forum for Violence and Trauma, is open until Aug. 31
1 month ago
COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Update Aug. 14
This post is part of the COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada, a joint initiative of J-Source, the Local News Research Project at Ryerson University and the Canadian Association of Journalists.
J-Source/ProjetJ is a publication of the Canadian Journalism Project, a venture led by the journalism programs at Ryerson University and Carleton University and supported by the post-secondary journalism programs at member institutions of J- Schools Canada/EcolesJ (j-schoolscanada.ca) as well as by a group of donors.
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