• British and Irish freelancers of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), which has represented freelancers since 1951, launched an electronic communications network in 1992 called NUJnet. Screenshot by J-Source.

    Freelancers helped invent digital communications tools to build online networks

    By Errol Salamon, Work and Labour Editor Before the Internet and World Wide Web became fully commercialized in the mid-1990s, freelance writers and photographers began using computer networks as organizing tools as early as 1992. Even before rights-grabbing contractsbecame the strong concern they are today for freelancers in Europe and North America, and before freelancers launched social…

  • This is a Canadian Issue, a microsite created by Ryerson Masters students as part of their digital reporting class. Screenshot by J-Source.

    Ryerson reporting project on Truth and Reconciliation makes waves

    By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor In a recent article in The Atlantic, Kieran Delamont tells the story of how Indigenous people have had a difficult history of representation in video games. It’s an important story that had its genesis in a classroom in Ryerson University’s journalism school. During the 2016 Winter semester, Ryerson professor Asmaa…

  • Author and Ryerson School of Journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee discusses his latest book with The Globe and Mail’s Doug Saunders. Photo courtesy Allison Ridgway.

    Kamal Al-Solaylee’s new book explores the complexities of having brown skin

    By Allison Ridgway for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre When Kamal Al-Solaylee saw a group of Filipina maids enjoying a picnic in a Hong Kong park during their time off work one Sunday afternoon in 2011, the concept for his next book began to form. That idea solidified when, back home and riding the subway…

  • Journalism Transformations, a recent colloquium organized by the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre. Photo courtesy Ilina Ghosh.

    Journalism Transformations: Audience behaviour and the future of news

    By Ilina Ghosh for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre When Beyoncé released her latest album, Lemonade, exclusively on the music streaming service Tidal, new user sign-ups rose by 1.2 million. But since then, the service’s popularity has once again waned. The same effect can be applied to modern journalism, says Alex Watson, The Telegraph’s former head of product.…

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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.…
  • Nicholas Hune-Brown, left, and two of his NMA nominated pieces. Headshot courtesy Nicholas Hune-Brown, screenshots by J-Source.

    A behind-the-scenes look at the NMA nominated work of Nicholas Hune-Brown

    By Chris Lowrey Nicholas Hune-Brown is a Toronto-based journalist who has been nominated more than a dozen times at the NMAs, which honour excellence in Canadian magazines. This year, he’s nominated for five, leading all individuals nominees—one in the Words and Pictures category, one in the Health and Medicine category, one in the Profile section…
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    Journalist interrupted

    Our liveblog from MacEwan University as four journalists plot a blueprint for what comes next.