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Knowing their news: Library workers as informants to journalism studies research

Tyler W. S. Nagel identifies a new role for the public library: a knowledge base of community media information, and a new collaboration between libraries and library workers
News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Results show differences in non-pandemic and pandemic news frames, and in national frames
Podcasting and media trauma

What are the challenges for the implementation of inclusive practices in journalism?
Book Review: Manipulating the message

How powerful forces shape the news
Missed opportunities for community engagement

An examination of the government-funded Local Journalism Initiative
‘Not a history project’: Investigating how journalism education changed through the pandemic

A special issue of Facts and Frictions' examines the impact of pandemic-related restrictions on journalism education
Land acknowledgements and knowledge rematriation

Considerations of place and respecting Indigenous intellectual property in podcasts
Journalism startups as networks in transition: The case of The Hoser

How Actor Network Theory helps us gain an understanding of the distinctive qualities of journalism startups
Unpaid journalism internships: Education or exploitation?

A new survey of students, employers and schools points to overhauling unpaid internship programs
Review: Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic

Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic By Nora Loreto (Fernwood Publishing, 2021) Review by Adrian Ma Toward the end of 2020, the editors of the popular website Dictionary.com hosted a “People’s Choice” survey to identify the…