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CBC ombudsperson: Opinions on Islamophobia
'Context and insight comes in many different forms. Sometimes it emerges from deep research into a subject. Sometimes it comes from the experience of a reporter who’s covered an issue for many years. And sometimes it comes from a journalist’s own life experience' -
Facts & Frictions Spring 2022
Technology and journalism education, climate disinformation, innovations in audio storytelling and more explored in new journal issue -
Discordant or just different? A comparison of community newspaper data in Canada
What the local news map and an industry group snapshot show — and what they don’t — about the state of community journalism -
Reflections on a year of the Fraser Valley Current
Starting a new enterprise is always a gamble. It’s a bet on yourself, on those who will help you, and on your audience. Managing editor Tyler Olsen breaks down what The Current's learned after Year One -
Bottom-up, audience-driven and shut down: How HuffPost Canada left its mark on Canadian media
HuffPost Canada was abruptly shut down on March 9, 2021, by Buzzfeed as part of a broad restructuring plan for the company. This closure came two weeks after two dozen workers filed for union certification -
CBC Ombudsperson: Science and nuance
My latest review examines how CBC covered the debate about the primary way COVID-19 is spread: airborne, or via respiratory droplets? One particular story last spring said that Canadian scientist Dr. John Conly was “under fire” by other researchers, and a number of that scientist’s colleagues complained that the public broadcaster was guilty of “character assassination”. -
‘Can you check your activism at the door?’: Under white supremacy, Black Canadian journalists see their very existence as a radical act
As newsrooms globally respond to accusations of racial bias by focusing on diversity, journalist datejie cheko green looks to her experience in Canada to argue that a fuller reckoning of journalism practices, from recruitment to the daily meeting, is needed to make real change -
On John Honderich
The storied newspaper giant and J-Source supporter died Saturday at 75 -
Saving journalism: views on how to pay for reliable information
Many countries are experimenting with different forms of government support and policies but the question is what works best and is sustainable in each context -
Spinning access to information in an age of misinformation
Public interest researcher Ken Rubin on what returned access requests show about the state of government duplicity and transparency in Canada
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