About Steph Wechsler

Community newspapers across Canada will be eligible to enter the National Newspaper Awards this year for the first time.

On Oct. 17, cannabis became legal in Canada. Here’s how newspapers across the country heralded in a new era of legalization on their front covers. This post will be updated with more front pages as they become available. To submit…

Renewed international interest in all things Canadian means even we’re looking at our country from a different perspective.

The economics of local news are no small challenge, but soon we may be able to anticipate significant causes of unhealthy news ecosystems in different U.S. cities.

Continue Reading How to scale our understanding of local news health

Bruce Livesey’s reporting has earned him a first ever NNA for a digital outlet, and two NMA noms.

Continue Reading Investigating the family that owns a province

By Steph Wechsler for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre The ongoing discussion about the state of Canadian news media tends to overlook what’s happening in smaller communities, local news advocate Robert Washburn said during a recent presentation at the Ryerson…

By Steph Wechsler for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Although Canadians value journalism and believe it is essential to a well-functioning democracy, they don’t want to pay for it, concludes a new study that examined the state of Canadian news…

Continue Reading Newsrooms need to talk about informed consent when reporting on LGBTQ+ communities

Continue Reading CBC doubling down on digital strategy and investigative news in 2016-2017

By Steph Wechsler Digital photography and the capacity to edit pictures quickly and affordably have reopened debate over what editorializing means in images and the nature of photojournalistic neutrality, says award-winning photographer Peter Bregg. New technologies have expanded the options…