Research

There’s a creeping conformity taking place on the web
Read More Continue Reading Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar

Countries around the world value the public’s right to know. But that principle can look very different place to place
Read More Continue Reading Challenging our conventions around naming mass shooters

From pay cuts to layoffs, print reductions to closures, thousands across the industry are hit hard by the pandemic
Read More Continue Reading We mapped all the media impacts of COVID-19 in Canada

What re-reading Camus’s The Plague can tell us about media, literature and social memory in times of crisis
Read More Continue Reading Popular literature in the age of pandemic threat

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
Read More Continue Reading New research project explores best practices for philanthropic support for journalism

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
Read More Continue Reading Why are j-school students saying no to reporting careers?

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
Read More Continue Reading Call for participants: New research project aims to understand the working lives of Toronto’s millennial freelancers

The appetite for smart local news is there. The challenge is figuring out how to make it profitable
Read More Continue Reading Local news outlets can fill the media trust gap – but the public needs to pony up

Mainstream media companies haven’t taken the basic step of crunching the numbers on whom they hire, but plenty of evidence suggests doing so is a healthy first step towards creating a more equitable and representative workplace
Read More Continue Reading A case for self-reporting

It won’t be a surprise to many that the gender pay gap still exists in Canadian journalism. 

A survey conducted by J-Source shows that 42 per cent of surveyed cisgender… Continue Reading Survey: Gender equity issues in Canadian journalism persist at end of decade