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![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…
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![Ugandan director Kamoga Hassan discusses his film, “Outed: The Painful Reality,” with journalist and queer media instructor Andrea Houston. Photo courtesy Jessica Ross.]()
Film exposes role of Ugandan newspapers in persecution of LGBTQ community
Queer Ugandan filmmaker lives in fear for his life, but is determined to keep telling stories from one of the most dangerous countries in the world for the LGBT community.
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Canada’s access to information regime is systemically broken, says panel
Accessing public information in Canada frequently entails multiple-year delays, seemingly arbitrary and generous redactions, and time-consuming appeals processes.
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![Kamal Al-Solaylee, Angelyn Francis and Jim Rankin discuss how reporters can get comfortable while covering controversial stories at an RJRC panel. Photo courtesy Madeleine Binning.]()
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is part of a journalist’s job, say panelists
Feeling uncomfortable while reporting on some communities and situations is part of being a good journalist.
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![Gavin Adamson, journalism undergraduate program director, presenting his findings at Ryerson University on Sept. 12, 2016. Photo courtesy Jasmine Bala]()
Positive mental health stories more often shared online than negative stories, study finds
The study by Gavin Adamson examined the content of articles dealing with mental health and how they were shared across digital platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
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![A crime map from the Ottawa Police Service. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Reporters need to dig deeper into crime maps to tell the whole story
New research finds that crime maps released by Canadian police forces only paints a partial picture of what is happening.
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![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…
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![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…
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![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…
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![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…
