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![Sun and Province need their own clear identities — and better editing. Photo courtesy of Phillip Jeffrey/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.]()
A nine-step plan to fix the Vancouver Sun and Province
It’s not too late to save the city’s dailies from a grim fate — here’s how.… -
![The tweet Erin Moore sent Ezra Levant. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Ezra Levant trolled me for taking my seven-year-old son to see Justin Trudeau
If we give in to fiction instead of fact, and vitriol instead of verification, we all lose.… -
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Globe and Mail Public Editor: When we laid eggs in 2016, you kindly let us know
The amount of corrections in The Globe and Mail in 2016 was up almost 10 per cent more than 2015, but it shows how smart our readers are… -
![Outside the Gitlaxt’aamiks Village Government office in northern B.C.’s Nisga’a territory. There is little media presence in the region to report on the independent treaty First Nation’s government decisions. Photo courtesy Wawmeesh Hamilton]()
Why freedom of the press should apply in Indigenous communities
Most First Nations members don’t enjoy the right to access information and hold their governments to account that most Canadians take for granted.… -
![Photo courtesy of Michelle-Andrea Girouard.]()
Journalism school multimedia teachers must emphasize solid journalism
Digital tools will come and go, but the skills stay the same.… -
![Photo courtesy Thomas Hawk/Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic.]()
Looking beyond philanthrojournalism
We need more than the kindness of strangers to support Canadian journalism… -
![The Toronto Star launched Headline Coffee on Sep. 12, a venture that delivers Fair Trade coffee along with the paper. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Finding innovation in a coffee and a morning newspaper
A big part of launching a new and original product is first convincing people you’re capable of having innovative ideas.… -
![Rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Wellington, New Zealand. Photo courtesy Neil Ballantyne/CC BY 2.0.]()
Anti-TPP day of action highlights threat to journalism
It’s part of a massive campaign against the TPP in North America, led north of the border by CWA Canada.… -
![The Toronto Star’s public editor Kathy English issued an apology for the erroneous placement of a picture of a Toronto mosque accompanying a Canadian Press story. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
News media’s rush to be first can have real consequences
Is that what led to the decision to publish a problematic article citing a so-called ‘study’ of Canadian mosques and Islamic schools that was first presented to readers without any reality checks?…
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