About Patricia Elliott

Focusing on investigative journalism collaborations empowers student careers, educators say

The documentary, Denendeh, was created by University of Regina School of Journalism students in 2010.
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Regina has one of the most opaque police forces in Canada, according to Newspaper Canada’s annual Freedom of Information Audit.
Continue Reading Why Saskatchewan is Canada’s black hole of policing information

A thought-provoking article by Greg MacDougall for the Dominion, Supporting Independent Media to Grow, includes interviews with Christine Crowther, David Skinner and others on the subject of keeping Canada's independent media afloat.

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Journalists who also pen books will be interested to know that the Literary Press Group, which provides sales support for 47 indepedent Canadian publishers, has suffered an abrupt and unexpected end to its Heritage Canada funding. Below is the LPG's statement on the cut, which the group says will result in the layoff of all its field staff and most of its head office staff.

Continue Reading Publisher’s group loses funding

With World Press Freedom Day coming up on May 3, Patricia Elliot takes a look at recent developments in Burma, which is poised to embrace press freedom for the first time in 50 years.

Continue Reading Burma media freedom a work in progress

Bell’s plan to acquire Astral has once again raised the question: does media concentration concern you? Bell has been expanding steadily in recent years. Will their plan take Quebec the way of New Brunswick? Consumer advocates are expressing …

A conference hosted by Ryerson churned up some interesting questions about the state of press freedom in Canada. Do Canadians take press freedom for granted? And who gives a damn, anyway? War censors exercised direct control during World …

Tunis, March 12th, 2012 (AMARC REPORT). More than a hundred associative and community media representatives, freedom of expression activists and delegates from international organizations supporting media called for the institutionalization of the right to communicate for democracy in the region during the closing of the first AMARC Conference in Mashreq and Maghreb on "Community Media and the Arab Spring", that was held in Tunis, on March 9 and 10, 2012.

Continue Reading Arab Spring conference calls for right to communicate

The robo-calls scoop highlights the value of investigative journalism in today’s newsrooms. Technology has brought new dilemmas, like the ethics of hacker-assisted reporting. An online discussion of the law and ethics of investigative journalism raises some interesting debates. But…