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We asked how you felt about the local and national media’s handling of Michael Rafferty’s trial thus far, especially in the context of tweeting Terri-Lynne McClintic’s gruesome testimony last week. Belinda Alzner…

"S'up Easy-E!" — Real-life Kathryn Marshall to real-life Ezra Levant on Twitter.

Mark Coddington rounds up discussion surrounding the use of anonymous sources in the wake of the New York Times op-ed about a Goldman Sachs employee's very public resignation.

Libel cases don’t come on the cheap. But the cost of the cases could be reduced, according to a new report from a British group appropriately named Alternative Libel Project.

J-Source's Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell spent Mar. 8 and 9 liveblogging and tweeting from a conference discussing the status of press freedom in Canada, hosted by Ryerson University's Journalism Research Centre…

J-Source's Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell spent Mar. 8 and 9 liveblogging and tweeting from a conference discussing the status of press freedom in Canada, hosted by Ryerson University's Journalism Research Centre…

The Pew Research Centre’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a new study examining the business models of newspapers and how they are adapting to a digital world. Belinda Alzner examines…

The problem one editor has with the relationship between celebrities and journalists, from GOOD. 

The Hill Times has a feature with Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher — the two reporters who broke the robocalls story for The Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia, respectively. They discuss how they…

Gwyneth Dunsford, a Canadian journalist living in Ghana as a JHR Rights Media Radio intern, wrote this account of her frustration with gaining access to sources, re-published here with permission from JHR's Field Notes.