• Phil Raby teaches at Durham College, which is in the process of Indigenizing their broadcasting program. Photo courtesy of Durham College.

    How Durham College is Indigenizing its broadcasting program

    By Anna Augusto Rodrigues and Phil Raby What does reconciliation mean to me? This is a question we have reflected on since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action were announced in 2015. As professors who teach media courses at Durham College, we felt an urgency and responsibility to address the calls, especially number…

  • Student journalism can help save our news media ecosystem

    By Errol Salamon for Policy Options While the idea of a journalism crisis isn’t new, the perpetuation of fake news during the 2016 US presidential election, arguably, has intensified the crisis and the threat to the democratic and civic function of journalism. “Truly fake news is like counterfeit money — it has been manufactured for…
  • Duncan McCue, CBC journalist and the Ryerson School of Journalism’s Rogers Visiting Journalist, at CBC’s Toronto studio. Photo courtesy Jasmine Bala.

    Duncan McCue works with Ryerson J-School on curriculum for covering Indigenous issues

    By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre  Reporters working in Canadian newsrooms should receive diversity training just like police officers and health workers do says Duncan McCue, the newly appointed Rogers Visiting Journalist at the Ryerson School of Journalism (RSJ). McCue said the training is necessary because journalists who don’t understand Indigenous cultures can cause…
  • Patti Sonntag awarded the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education to do project on Canadian resource extraction companies with 26 student journalists and partners. Photo courtesy Patti Sonntag.

    Patti Sonntag spearheads Canadian collaborative investigative journalism project

    This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Jane Gerster The first time Patti Sonntag tried to pitch a hands-on investigative class about resource extraction companies to Canadian journalism schools she was met with enthusiastic but noncommittal interest. It was 2014 and while schools were interested in the topic, Sonntag said, the project was…

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    What 12 months as a Nieman fellow taught journalist Stephen Maher

    By Stephen Maher In September, Joshua Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, gave a talk about trends in the media business to the incoming Nieman fellows, 23 journalists from around the world spending a year at Harvard. He marked the first slide with an asterix: * Warning: May be depressing.…
  • On Feb. 3, the Gateway announced it would discontinue its print issue, replacing it with expansive digital coverage and a monthly magazine. Screenshot by J-Source.

    What the Gateway going digital means for campus media

    By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Come May, the only way you will be able to read The Gateway is by visiting its website or picking up its new monthly paper. The University of Alberta’s campus paper announced on Feb. 3 it would end its weekly print publication at the end of April and start prioritizing…

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    Grammar guide: misplaced modifiers

    Kids make nutritious snacks. Snappy headline? Case of cannibalism? Or, a misplaced modifier? A modifier is an adverb, adjective or phrase that, ideally, clarifies or adds detail to your sentence. But, put it in the wrong place and you can have the opposite effect. In the fourth in a five-part series of open-source learning videos on…