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  • Eden Fineday

    Will Indigenous voices be lost in battle with Big Tech over online news?

    The digital era made it easy for IndigiNews to connect with Indigenous communities. The Online News Act threatens that Continue Reading Will Indigenous voices be lost in battle with Big Tech over online news?

  • Steve Trumper (first row, right) in a group photo with the masthead that produced the 2019 issue of the Review of Journalism. A student in the front and back row hold up a poster of the magazine's cover.

    On Stephen Trumper’s legacy in storytelling, journalism education and community care

    Stephen Trumper, 1953-2023, taught a generation of journalists at Toronto Metropolitan University  Continue Reading On Stephen Trumper’s legacy in storytelling, journalism education and community care

  • In far northern Canada, pulses of freshwater flow down rivers after inland ice and snow melts. These pulses, known as a freshet, carry huge amounts of sediment. The sediment seen in this image flowed into the Beaufort Sea from the Mackenzie River, the longest northward-flowing river in North America. White, light blue and red

    What French-language audiences might not see in their climate change news

    Some media outlets in Canada have increased resources for environmental journalism, but continue to struggle with addressing across coverage Continue Reading What French-language audiences might not see in their climate change news

  • Depuis quelques années, la neutralité journalistique est de plus en plus remise en question dans le milieu. Cela a été mis en évidence lors du dernier congrès de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ) le 5 novembre 2022 lors d’un panel mouvementé composé de Lela Savić de La Converse, de François Cardinal de La Presse et d’Alexis Ross de Pivot. Depuis, plusieurs personnalités médiatiques québécoises ont abordé le sujet des biais journalistiques. M. Cardinal et M. Ross ont également tous les deux écrit des articles pour revenir sur leur expérience.

    Welcome to Facts & Frictions Fall 2022

    Journalists’ roles and values, newsroom mergers, AI in journalism education and COVID coverage are featured in the latest issue of Facts & Frictions Continue Reading Welcome to Facts & Frictions Fall 2022

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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’ Continue Reading CBC ombudsperson: Opinions on Islamophobia

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    Facts & Frictions Spring 2022

    Technology and journalism education, climate disinformation, innovations in audio storytelling and more explored in new journal issue Continue Reading Facts & Frictions Spring 2022

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    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 Continue Reading Reflections on a year of the Fraser Valley Current

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    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”. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsperson: Science and nuance

  • John Honderich in a red t-shirt, bowtie and blazer smiling and holding his Canadian Journalism Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award

    On John Honderich

    The storied newspaper giant and J-Source supporter died Saturday at 75 Continue Reading On John Honderich

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    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 Continue Reading Spinning access to information in an age of misinformation

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