Editor’s choice

Despite an endless cycle of missteps, call-outs and apologies, Canadian journalism has a terrible track record holding far-right groups to account – whether they’re in the streets or public office. Until there’s a much deeper reckoning, it’s unlikely to get any better
Read More Continue Reading Can a news media that doesn’t really oppose fascism ever cover it well?

After 14 years of newsroom cuts, reporter Judy Wells is determined to keep her local paper alive
Read More Continue Reading There’s a one-woman show in Deloraine, Manitoba

The Varsity’s reporters have found no shortage of business stories to cover at the University of Toronto. Will other student papers follow their lead?
Read More Continue Reading Why one student paper is is taking on the business beat

(Disclosure: I’m the full-time paid publisher of Briarpatch Magazine, a volunteer board member of the Media Co-op, CEO of the currently inactive environmental consulting company Porpoise B Consulting, and freelance… Continue Reading A case study in nondisclosures

Over the last three years, I’ve had some version of this conversation with countless young Canadian journalists.

“I’m so anxious right now.”

“My work laid off 15 per cent of… Continue Reading A generation of journalists are struggling

Dale Bass started her 45-year journalism career in 1973 at the London Free Press. She remembers a bustling newsroom of 185, with two or three city hall reporters. Bass would sometimes be… Continue Reading Vanishing City Hall

Racialized journalists are trying to create change in a predominantly white industry, but say support needs to come from the top.
Read More Continue Reading How representative are Canadian newsrooms, actually?

Yellowknife elected a new mayor on Oct. 15. When candidate Adrian Bell announced he was conceding, he didn’t tell CBC, or the local newspaper, or mainstream FM station. He told… Continue Reading Cabin Radio is building an army of northern broadcasters

Stop pushing student journalists to the side.
Read More Continue Reading The S-word

Uncritical coverage of industry projections means climate change is left out of the picture.
Read More Continue Reading What Canada’s major media are forgetting when they report on oil