Columns

Mount Royal University hub will build technical skills, distribute content and foster scholarship on the medium

Canada lags behind some countries with preserving public digital records

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.

Explanatory reporting, drone journalism and VR help tell the story of the COVID-19 era

Adrian Ma breaks down binaural audio and how it enriches the listener experience

Earlier this year, The Fifth Estate aired a documentary about the industry of birth tourism, in which expectant mothers from abroad pay a fee to brokers, then come to Canada to deliver their baby. Complainant Janet Cleveland called the program “seriously inaccurate and biased”. I disagreed that it was biased, but my review found problems, nonetheless.

What re-reading Camus’s The Plague can tell us about media, literature and social memory in times of crisis

Toronto Star editor Irene Gentle on lifting the paywall on public service coverage

Let's tell the truth about Blatchford's toxic legacy

What 360-graphic novels can teach us about non-fiction storytelling