4 weeks ago
J-schools lag behind in teaching prized data journalism skills
Professors tend to believe their students don’t want to do math. As a result, more frequently used tools like social media are emphasized, leaving new reporters behind on complex analysis tasks valued (if underutilized) by newsrooms
2 months ago
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest
Narratives about the Women’s March and anti-Trump protests gave voice to protesters and significantly explored their grievances. Protests about anti-Black racism and Indigenous people’s rights received the least legitimizing coverage, with them more often seen as threatening and violent
3 months ago
Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar
There’s a creeping conformity taking place on the web
3 months ago
Challenging our conventions around naming mass shooters
Countries around the world value the public’s right to know. But that principle can look very different place to place
3 months ago
We mapped all the media impacts of COVID-19 in Canada
From pay cuts to layoffs, print reductions to closures, thousands across the industry are hit hard by the pandemic
5 months ago
Popular literature in the age of pandemic threat
What re-reading Camus’s The Plague can tell us about media, literature and social memory in times of crisis
6 months ago
New research project explores best practices for philanthropic support for journalism
A new study launched by the Local News Research Project at Ryerson’s School of Journalism will explore what can be learned from other countries about philanthropic support for news media
7 months ago
Why are j-school students saying no to reporting careers?
Journalism students have very different ideas about what a reporting career means to them. But it’s the ones who value journalism’s role in democracy that stay the course
7 months ago
Call for participants: New research project aims to understand the working lives of Toronto’s millennial freelancers
Home/work: Understanding work-at-home freelancing in Toronto is a new research project led by Nancy Worth, assistant professor in geography and environmental management at the University of Waterloo
7 months ago
Local news outlets can fill the media trust gap – but the public needs to pony up
The appetite for smart local news is there. The challenge is figuring out how to make it profitable
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