3 days ago
Survey: recent journalism grads working at weekly newspapers hit hardest by pandemic
New journalists find communities engaged with COVID-19 news, but important stories unrelated to pandemic going uncovered
2 months ago
Follow the Money: Into the Nursing Home Complex
Zaid Noorsumar investigates how long-term care coverage missed the warning signs of a system in crisis
3 months ago
TikTok For News: Why there’s a place for journalism on the app
Attracting younger followers is one reason media organizations in Canada should start thinking about adding the platform to their social queue
3 months ago
Parler is bringing together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites and white supremacists as the social media platform attracts millions of Trump supporters
While it’s too early to tell if Parler is here to stay, it has already achieved a reputation and level of engagement that has overtaken other alternative platforms
4 months ago
How tracking can improve gender representation in sourcing from j-school to the newsroom
So far, focused, sustained attention on diversity in sourcing leads to results.
4 months ago
New journal to highlight journalism research
J-Source to publish Facts & Frictions in partnership with J-Schools Canada/Écoles-J Canada
5 months ago
Podcasts’ slow journalism is where reporting meets storytelling
Through the course ‘Podcasting and Perspective: How Audio Storytelling Can Tackle Complex Social Issues,’ 2020 Asper Fellow Hannah Sung maps out how audio journalism’s layered approach gets results
5 months ago
2020 is a year for the history books, but not without digital archives
Canada lags behind some countries with preserving public digital records
7 months ago
Student consortium continues to tackle public health through national data collaboration
Now mapping pandemic impacts across Canada, the IIJ continues to rack up accolades for public interest data journalism
8 months 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
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/Écoles-J Canada as well as by a group of donors.
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