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Gig worker legislation fuels debate on freelance journalism labour
What Calif. bill showcases about pitfalls in legal approaches to securing protections, decent pay for freelancers -
Podcasts’ slow journalism is where reporting meets storytelling
Through the course ‘Podcasting and Perspective: How Audio Storytelling Can Tackle Complex Social Issues,’ 2020 Asper Fellow Hannah Sung maps out how audio journalism’s layered approach gets results -
Understanding the TikTok saga and what it means to Canada
Negotiations for a Trump-led takeover of the popular video sharing app continue to twist and turn, with Walmart and Oracle in line for partial ownership. But is a U.S.-owned ByteDance any different for Canadians? And what will happen if the app gets banned? -
2020 is a year for the history books, but not without digital archives
Canada lags behind some countries with preserving public digital records -
From media house to charity case
New federal rules allowing news organizations to become non-profits may not be worth the effort for Canada’s struggling media sector -
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest
Narratives about the Women’s March and anti-Trump protests gave voice to protesters and significantly explored their grievances. Protests about anti-Black racism and Indigenous people’s rights received the least legitimizing coverage, with them more often seen as threatening and violent -
Canada’s dismal data climate
Missing stats imperil our ability to communicate health risks for the pre-existing global crisis. Here’s what we can learn from coverage of COVID-19 -
Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar
There’s a creeping conformity taking place on the web -
Challenging our conventions around naming mass shooters
Countries around the world value the public’s right to know. But that principle can look very different place to place -
Popular literature in the age of pandemic threat
What re-reading Camus’s The Plague can tell us about media, literature and social memory in times of crisis
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